We’re currently working on a piece for The Brain Project in support of The Baycrest Foundation. They have provided a cast over-sized brain and we’re transforming it with smalti tile mosaic. This work includes 5 giant monarch butterflies. Watch this site for updates.
Sheila Gregory and Eugene Knapik have been active in the Toronto art scene since the mid-1980s. They have organized numerous large-scale group art exhibitions and are featured in the Collective City short film The Un-Collective.
Sheila Gregory has published her ongoing series of photographs: The Left Overs online.
More about Eugene Knapik at his personal blog 27th Street. His book of short stories, Squeeze Box Man is available at Amazon.
Long Branch Mosaics – we are Eugene Knapik and Sheila Gregory. We’re two artists living in Long Branch (SW corner of Toronto) who began creating mosaics to enhance our own home. We now create mosaics to order in all sizes, complexities and themes.
Call Eugene at 647-518-2570 or email: longbranchmosaics@gmail.com to discuss a custom mosaic for your home or garden.
We make all kinds of indoor or outdoor work in all sizes and themes, including birds, butterflies and bears as well as large granite benches. Materials range from broken crockery and found objects to Italian smalti (glass) tiles. Prices vary depending on size, complexity and materials. Each project is a one of a kind work of art. We would love to make something special for your home.
This large-scale exterior grizzly bear project is about 5 feet all and 4 feet wide. It has recently been installed at a home in Paris Ontario. It lives along the back wall of a house, in a garden area, overlooking a pool. This mosaic was installed in the fall and sits above the ground to accommodate garden growth.
The grizzly is made from a combination of broken crockery, smalti tiles and a few surprises such as the white LEGO pieces on the head. This mosaic is on a sturdy treated plywood ground, installed using a French cleat.
From a distance you can see the bear as a whole, but as you get closer, the detail reveals itself. 
This is one of our larger, more complex projects, and it is our second grizzly. In 2013, we did one in a different pose for our own garden. We primarily do custom work. The Paris Bear was designed with the specific site in mind. After making a site visit, we created this bear in our mosaic workshop in Long Branch.
We enjoy doing the larger mosaic work and we’re always happy to discuss possibilities to fit any home or garden.
Robins nesting in a spruce tree in our backyard were the inspiration for the Long Branch Robin.
This photo shows the Long Branch Robin in process. This mosaic is made from broken crockery, ceramic tiles and a few surprise items on a birch plywood ground.
We make butterfly mosaics from all kinds of unusual materials. This one has flowerpots and poker chips. If you have special materials you would like to transform into a mosaic, we can do it for you.
Long Branch mosaics does custom mosaic work for indoors or outdoors, from giant birds and butterflies to garden benches. Contact Eugene and Sheila by email: longbranchmosaics@gmail.com
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