How the Sun Wakes up in the Morning
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How the Sun Wakes up in the Morning from Kate Rattray on Vimeo.
It is better quality on Vimeo, but it won’t show up on here, so here it is on You Tube!
I collected another new piece of work from my framers yesterday. This is “Gathering Darkness”. It takes the idea from my Flocked series – How the Sky Becomes Blue and The Birds Who Bring the Dusk (see mosaics here) into the night. It was also inspired by staring at Deep Sunset through the Woods (see mosaic here)…
I was inspired to make another owl after reading the Celtic tale of Blodeuwedd from the Celtic prose story ‘The Four Branches of the Mabinogi’. Blodeuwedd was the wife of Lleu Llaw Gyffes magically made of flowers by magicians, Math and Gwydion, since Lleu’s mother had cursed him and he was not able to have…
Last April I was out with my family watching the gliders at the Mendip flying club. It was very exciting seeing them being pulled into the air almost vertically with the aid of a wynch , then after the wynch hook dropped the glider finding balance and floating gracefully up high into the air. Well…
I have various different projects on the go at the moment…a large commission, bird baths for the Bishops Palace garden festival in June and some new work for an exhibition at Glastonbury Abbey in September. All exciting stuff that is keeping my left and right brain buzzing and pinging. During the in-between times I like…
Sometimes I like to stray from the glass and make something else, and I love experimental collaborative projects like this one. But I promise there will be another mosaic post soon!
These are the pieces I will be showing at the “Flocked” exhibition at the Craft Gallery, Dartington Cider Press Centre, with 7 other artists. You can find out more details about the exhibition here .