Our Jury

Giovanni Gerometta

Caroline Jariwala

Terry Nicholls

Born in Sesto al Reghena, a small municipality in north eastern Italy, Giovanni Gerometta is a graduate from the Spilimbergo National School ofMosaic. He arrived in Canada in 1954 and proceeded to create several muralsin churches most notably in Sainte-Anne-de Beaupré, as well as in various buildings throughout the province.

A figurative artist and a mosaicist in Quebec Giovanni Gerometta held several exhibits in Quebec, Montreal, Hull, Halifax in addition in taking part in collective exhibits across Canada. He also took part in the Baie-St-Paul Symposium in 1982 and 1983. His artwork ( oils, watercolours, red chalks, mosaics, silkscreen is proudly displayed in many private collections in Canada, the United States and Canada.

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 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.