Slowly the guest house office in the Foxes home became Foxes Art Studio. Mary Alice Fox inherited the drafting table where she produces her mosaic art and Jim is 4 feet away on the computer desk where his easel is set up for watercolors.

After raising two sons and then running a landscape design business Mary Alice began to mosaic spheres, she called "confetti". She made these colorful spheres to replace the flowers which her semi-domesticated quail had eaten. The Fox backyard is ablaze with color and the quail seem content. Her husband, Jim, five grandchildren and mosaics make up the brunt of her life. She has studied in Ravenna, Italy and has produced abstracts, portraits, painting frames, bowls and the ubiquitous spheres. "If Jim stood still long enough I would mosaic him", she has said.

After a 10 year career in the NBA Jim kept busy with Sport Court Of Arizona, a design and build firm which specialized in athletic courts of all types, for 35 years. He loved watercolor paintings but the idea of taking lessons at the prestigious Scottsdale Artist School was daunting. Jim and another timid artist took private lessons from friend and accomplished artist Yvonne Joyner ."She was very kind", says Jim. "I was horrible." More workshops from Ted Nuttall and Kim Johnson plus a lot of time at the easel helped produce quality paintings.

Jim is a signature artist of the National Watercolor Society and the Arizona Watercolor Association.