our Jury

Giovanni Gerometta

Giovanni Gerometta was born in a small town in northern Italy called Sesto al Reghena. After four years of intensive training, he graduated as a mosaicist from the National Mosaic School in Spilimpergo.

In 1954, he arrived in Canada. From then on, he took part in the creation of several mosaic murals in Quebec churches, including the majestic Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré. He has also created numerous works of art in various buildings. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions.

Around 1982-1983, he took part in the Baie-Saint-Paul Symposium, where one of his mosaics can be admired as a legacy of his participation on the site.

As a figurative painter and mosaicist, Giovanni Gerometta has taken part in several solo exhibitions in Quebec City, Montreal, Hull, Halifax and Italy. His works are now part of several corporate and private collections in Canada and the United States.

Caroline Jariwala

Caroline Jariwala is an international mosaic artist with extensive experience in public and private commissioned projects as well as workshop facilitation in schools, galleries, and health & well-being settings in the UK and around the world. Caroline is best known as an ethical mosaic artist using chipped, rejected, thrown away and second hand crockery and cheap discontinued ceramic tiles, ordinarily destined for landfill. Her ingenious use of materials gives a new lease of life to create a much desired object of beauty.

Terry Nicholls

Terry is a graduate of Memorial University and former marine biologist with the Government of Canada. He is a self-educated mosaicist who has been creating mosaic art since 2000.

Terry creates representational pieces which reflect his love of the environment in which he lives. He is greatly influenced by the changing ocean environment which he observes. He has won several provincial and international awards for visual arts. He has exhibited in France, the United States and Canada. He resides in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.