Elizabeth Veglia 
Silver Lining (painting)
Acrylic paint and Foil Leaf
4 pounds
30”x40”
2006
$1500
The accompanying poem to this painting imparts the emotions I felt after being inundated by the storm.  And the elements in the painting describe my experience – the broken off pump with a trickle of cold water, which was caught in totes for dunking the salt water from clothes and household items.  This ran off into a salvaged blow-up kiddie pool for bathing. My jewelry heaped into a wire basket to be dealt with later.  Bottles of wine, labels dissolving, yet appreciated in a moment of letting go.  A boat up a tree nearby.  Furniture hauled out to be assessed.   Then there were the helicopters, keeping vigil. 
Elizabeth Veglia
Sentries of the Storm
Ceramic Mosaic
26 pounds
23"x29"
2009
$1800
This mosaic was inspired by the seabirds that arrive on the first winds of the storm.  They are called Frigate Birds, but I prefer to call them sentries, as their mission is to announce that we humans best take note of their presence.
 
 Elizabeth Veglia
After the Storm
Ceramic Tile Mosaic and Acrylic
8 pounds
16”x31”
2008
$800 Sold 
Only the best built piers on our coastline can survive the big storms.  You recognize them by their skeletons, the pilings that are useful now only for fish to hide - until humans recover enough to consider how fun it would be to walk on water again.
Best know for her mosaic installations, Elizabeth Veglia’s works include the Fallen Heroes Mosaic at Stennis Space Center;  the 500 square foot Bridge Mosaics in Ocean Springs, MS;  The Three Graces Mosaic at Hancock Medical Center and Renaissance, at the Hancock County Library, both in Bay Saint Louis, MS;  the memorial mosaics to Hurricanes Camille and Katrina in Biloxi, MS;  the two Waveland, MS City Hall complex mosaics, pre- and post-Hurricane Katrina;  the Ocean Springs, MS Civic Center mosaic; and eight mosaic murals in the city park in Wiggins, MS.  
Veglia has installed numerous other mosaics in schools, churches and public buildings throughout Mississippi and in Louisiana.  She has also collaborated on mosaic installations in New York City and Barcelona, Spain.  
In addition to creating tile and glass mosaics, Veglia is prolific in the creation of oil and acrylic paintings.  She also creates a line of jewelry in semi-precious stones, silver and bronze.