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Personal Fine Art Works

Finding peace, connection, and inspiration in her studio, Laura plays with imagery of the moment. These pieces may take days, weeks, months, or years and are companions on her journey. For purchase inquiries, please fill out this form >>

Healing Dreams
Tools & Found Objects
Abstracts and designs
Cast Glass
Animals and plants
We Are Water

Healing Dreams

Using a mosaic as an illustration, Laura retells and reimagines her childhood stories through a lens of personal wisdom. Dreams, insights, and teachings take on a storybook form, honoring mystery, the unknown cosmos, nature, and heart. Pieces of uniquely formed clay join with cut, fused, and slumped glass to create the mosaic images. The series was displayed at Wild Hearts Gallery, Placitas, NM, during the month of October 2025.

This is a time to know that we do not know. It’s a time to remember our stories, collective and personal. It’s a time to heal as well as forgive ourselves and others. Let’s honor the great mysteries of which we are all a part!

All The Metaphors Sailed on Gifted Dreams
11” h x 13.75” w x 5” d
$5sold
Water Cosmos Dream
24.5” h x 22.5” w x approx 2”d
$sold
All The Stories Sailed on Gifted Dreams 24” h x 18” w x 1.5”d $600
Away on Gifted Dreams 24” h x 18” w x approx, 4.5”d $600
Blue Moon 25”h x 18” w x 1.5 “d $650
The Conversation 56” h x 32” w x 2.5” d $4,000
The Stories Remember
21”h x 20” w x 2.25 d
$600
For Piper
4” h x 23.25”w x 2,5 “ d
$2,200sold
Sailing Into Silence
17”hx15” w x approx 1.75 d
sold
Grace In Her Garden – Shekinah
Human Nature
Detail Flower Mosaic, Albuquerque
Luna y Sol
Grouting Luna y Sol with friend, Marina
Swallow Fireplace Albuquerque
Recycling Mandalas/ Open Space Visitor Center/Community project

Tools and Found Objects

Old tools and found objects have a beauty of their own. No longer functional or perhaps discarded, human made or nature’s gift, Laura appreciates the forms which inspire the integration of mosaic design.

Bachelor’s Meadow, 4’h x 3’w x 4″ d
TransformOler
Old Plane Sold
sold
sold
Night House
approx. 35″ h x 315″ w x 4.5″ d $3,
s
Old Tools
27.5″h x 17″ w x 3″d
$750
sold
La Madera
$300
Forgotten Beauty.(sold)

Abstracts and designs

One of 3 panels for Living Room 4″ h
Jazz Series 24″wx36″h $1,800
Dark Sun 3’x4′ $3,500
After Ravenna 3’x4′ sold
Oli’s Silver Squares NA
Kimono Dance
approx 28″ h x 19″ w x 5″d
Peace Between the Wars
33.5″h x 20.5″w x 2″d
$1100
Detail/kitchen
Kundalini Rising (sold)
Shield
approx. 4’h x 2’w x 2.5″d
$2,500
After Ravenna
Synchronicity
27″w x 34″ h x2″d

Cast Glass

The simple elegance of cast glass, so different from the details of intricate mosaic work, has been briefly visited. Laura will spend more time with this process, which allows for glass sculpture and the translation of clay form into glass.

Cracked Earth Vessel 7″ h x 9″ w x 3″ d

Animals

Dragonfly Sanctuary detail
Husband and Wife Mated for Life 15″ h x 26″ w x 1″ d $1,100
Crane Gate
Raven Delights approx. 30″ w x 16″h x 1.25″d
Raven Flies Over Mountains
Small Crane Altar
Crane Altar 4′ x 4′ /NA
Wild Horse Altar/4″h x 37″ w x 10″ d
$6,000
Turtle and Tang/$400/sold
Land Lubber (detail)
Two Quail/ sold
Blue Iguana/ Albuquerque Zoo
Zoo Zebra
Zoo Urangutan
Mother and baby elephant wall
(Tribute to Daisy)
Wild Joy approx. 35″ h x 30″w x 2.5″ d $750 (sold)
Harvest Time 2′ h x 32″‘w x 1″ d $1,650
Red Flower Vase $500
Blue Corn and Sunflowers
24″w x 18″ h $750

We Are Water

Water imagery is a recurrent exploration. Living in the high desert, Laura appreciates and honors this source of life. Rain, aquifers, snow melt, streams, and rivers allow all to live in the high desert home of New Mexico. During the last ten years, she has also spent time in Hawaii, which feels like a second home. The vastness of the ocean humbles her, and the life of the reef is a never-ending joy and wonder.

Once In A Blue Moon sold
Everything Exists In Relationship
Hawaii sold
Gray Water Kitchen 8.5′ hx 4.5/w
Hualalai sold
Just Below The Surface sold
Night Journey sold
From the Shore sold
River House
approx. 39″ h x 24″ w x 10″ d (with open door)
ReTurning
Shower 21″H x 15″W x 5″d $1,100
Travelers approx 3.5’w x 2’h x 5,5″d sold
Water
approx 18″ x 18″ $750 sold
Water Meter Mandala 4’x4′
sold

Art in public spaces

Laura has created mosaic pieces for the Albuquerque Bio Park and other businesses and public venues. Some of the murals are dedicated to honor volunteers or donors honoring loved ones.

Laura has facilitated community involvement, creating murals in Placitas, New Mexico, and Norman, Oklahoma.

Albuquerque Open Space Visitor Center
Placitas Community Mural
Everything Exists In Relationship UNMCCC
botanic Gardens Dragonfly Sanctuary
Albuquerque Zoo
Rust Medical Center
Lion’s Park, OK

Gray Water Kitchen

Albuquerque Open Space Visitor Center, Coors Blvd.

Gray Water Kitchen is about “home”-a metaphor that connects “inside” with “outside”. We can joyously share ourselves and appreciate our miraculous planet earth. Water is our most precious resource. Where possible, we do well to repurpose recycled water for our neighboring plants and animals ~ especially here in the high desert of the southwest! Even in city and suburbs, we could direct water used by washing machines and showers to garden beds and trees.

Most kitchens are the center of a home ~ a place for gathering and nurturance. May we include nature as family ~ taking from the abundance offered and also giving back!

Approx. 8.5 ft. x 4.5 ft.

Recycling Mandalas/ Open Space Visitor Center/Community project

Placitas Community Mural

Protect Our Wildlife Corridors

Neighbors were invited to Laura Robbin’s or Cirrelda Snider- Bryan’s studio to create their favorite animals and plants out of clay. We then proceeded to create the environments they belonged in – such as High Desert or Grasslands – one panel at a time. Local artists contributed as well as school children. The project took about 4 years and involved over a hundred people.

Unlike a mosaic where the overall design is predetermined or laid out, these mosaics allowed for surprising individual and unique explorations and creativity. Participants also grouted and covered edges with glass pieces while others created components of the scenes which were to be coordinated later by Laura, Cirrelda and other helpful artists. Quite a wonderful challenge!

A project of Pathways – Wildlife Corridors of New Mexico – This mural speaks of a community that cares for local wildlife in the midst of human development.The Mosaic is displayed on a wall owned by PNM – previously the site of the Placitas Recycling Center. It is located on the north side of Highway 165, 1/4 mile up from Exit 242 (I25) to Placitas.

Long view of panels
Volunteers Grouting
Las Huertas Creek Panel
6.5’h x 9’w
High Desert Panel
6.5’h x 9’w
Wild Horse Panel 4’h x 8’w
Grasslands Panel
6.5’h x 9’w4’w x 8’h
Student Bosque Panel
6.5’h x 9’w
Students in studio
Adult Bosque Panel
6.5’h x 9’w
Volunteers Grouting
Volunteer Name Panel 4’h x 8′ w
4′ x 8′

Everything Exists In Relationship

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center

I hope that this mosaic brings joy and a feeling of connection to those who visit this excellent cancer center. I found the art and aesthetics of the facility comforting when I was getting treatment there. So many thanks to the entire, caring staff.

3.5’ h x 30”w

Dragonfly Sanctuary

The mosaic panel is made of cut and fused glass. I was fortunate to be asked to create this when the Bugarium was first being created at the Albuquerque Botanic Gardens. You can see it on the wall of the garden as you leave the building. The ceramic surround shows name plates with which donors have honored loved ones.

6.5 ft high x 11 ft wide with surround.

Albuquerque Botanic Gardens (detail)
Detail
Detail
whole panell

Albuquerque Zoo

This mural is located in the Educational Courtyard and honors the many volunteers who work at the Zoo. It covers two walls to the entrance of a garden and is approximately 3”high x 17’ long. It is made of high fired ceramic and glass components.

Albuquerque Zoo Wall | Detail
Mother and baby elephant
(Tribute to Daisy)
Albuquerque Zoo | Blue Iguana | Detail
Zoo Zebra
Zoo Urangutan

Presbyterian Rust Medical Center Chapel, Albuquerque

Presbyterian Rust Medical Center/ Chapel

Lion’s Park

The Norman, Oklahoma Arts Council commissioned this mosaic. Most of the work was completed in my home studio but I traveled there three times and worked with community members. Some of the foliage along the bottom edges and all of the edging developed from their participation.

Norman, Oklahoma Arts Council | Lion’s Park
Norman, Oklahoma Arts Council | Lion’s Park
Norman, Oklahoma Arts Council | Lion’s Park
Norman, Oklahoma Arts Council | Lion’s Park

Private commissions

Since 2002, Laura has completed numerous pieces for private homes and businesses, both within and outside. Below, you will find images from various commissions: The Albuquerque Zoo and Botanical Gardens, The Range Cafes, private homes, and businesses.

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