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!
Mosaic artist Irit Levy from Monaco, has written a short review about a mosaic I made called “Silver Birch Trees at Sunset”. You can read it on her blog: http://iritlevyart.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/birch-trees-taking-it-farther-to-abstract/ She has also written about several other mosaics by various artists on her blog : “Mosaic is Art “.
I find that choosing a suitable name for my mosaic artworks is just as important as the piece itself. It makes the story whole. The process I use for this choice often starts with a working title, first thought of at the same time as the first sketch. When the mosaic is complete (or during…
This summer I was asked to make a mosaic for a couple’s Golden Wedding Anniversary to place on a tree in their woodland garden. The brief was “something fairly abstract, with a suggestion of plants and flowing water and using reds, oranges, golds and magenta’s, the size to be about 120m x 50cm” It was…
A couple of months ago Chedworth Roman Villa got in touch and asked if I was interested in submitting work for their inaugural art exhibition this year. They wanted the works to have some relationship with the Villa, a sense of place. I decided to pick out elements from the Chedworth Roman mosaics to use for…
Spring has finally come bringing with her flowers and warmth and a wonderful chorus of birds. Two of the birds I have been watching in my garden are a pair of bullfinches. The male donning his dark pink red chest and the female a paler pink. I’m glad to see them because finches are seen…
This time last year I posted a blog about the Olympic sculpture project “Art at the Edge” and my involvement as a guest artist. Finally I have the time to start my sculpture for it. I decided to make a sculpture that would be about the experience of being an Olympic athlete, a study of…