By Charlyne Varkonyi Schaub
It’s obvious Judy and Marty Bloomfield live for their art.
Their 3,248-square-foot house in Boca West looks like a gallery of contemporary art — filled with bowls, sculptures and art furniture.
Even the gardens were created to feature their art.
It’s no surprise that Judy was miserable when she looked out her back window at a plain, unattractive stucco wall. What it needed, she decided, was a mosaic to reflect the beauty of their garden.
“Who can we get to do the mosaic?” she asked Jesse Durko, the owner of Jesse Durko Nursery in Davie and designer of the garden.
He didn’t hesitate.
“I’ll do it,” he said, which surprised the Bloomfields. Durko, an oil painter who had a one-man show in Fort Lauderdale two years ago, never expressed any interest in mosaics.
Durko decided to create a mosaic reflecting the plants in the garden and started collecting ceramic tiles. But when Judy saw the tiles, she wasn’t happy with three shades of green that were available.
Her somewhat unorthodox solution was to go to HomeGoods and buy plant-colored green plates — whole and broken.
“I went to every HomeGoods in Palm Beach County and bought bags and bags of them,” she said. “The people in the stores thought I was nuts.”
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