A small group of birds

Bykaterattray March 8, 2011

To add to my collection of 4 wall pieces for the “Flocked” exhibition, (see last post) I made a small group of 3d birds.

Hey come on guys, don’t be shy – turn around, let me introduce you:

hello-birds — (left to right) Percy, Pip, Buzz, Jess

mosaic art | mosaic workshops

Summer Mosaic Courses
Bykaterattray May 28, 2013

I have been running courses at Somerset Crafts for the past few months. This month students made a paving stone and a panel for outdoors. The courses take place either in the polytunnel, outside or in the gallery. I start the courses by discussing my work with students to offer an insight into some of the…

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bones of saints | exhibitions | king arthur | mosaic art | Queen | queen guinevere | saints | sculpture

The Relics of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere
Bykaterattray September 28, 2017

As I mentioned in the last post I will be posting fairly regularly in the next few weeks to show you my work for the Glastonbury Abbey exhibition “Traces Revealed” The inspiration for the pieces I made came from the abbey’s precious relics that were once in abundance in medieval times but then lost or…

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Shift : What is the Work of Art?
Bykaterattray January 12, 2013

Last night I went to the preview of “Shift : What is the Work of Art?” at the Black Swan Arts Centre in Frome where I have the pleasure of being one of the artists chosen to take part. Curator, Kim Wood, picked my animations “The Storm” and “Rain” . Outside a glass blower was making a…

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bird mosaics | leaf mosaics | mosaic art | sun mosaics | sunsets

Shopping in the Woods
Bykaterattray December 10, 2013January 20, 2020

Fancy shopping in the woods? All that fresh air and nature. See more woodland inspired mosaics here And sun inspired ones here If you like my work you might want to sign up to my newsletter. I offer discounts of my work and you’ll get invites to my exhibitions. You can sign up here 😉

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mosaic art | zelij

More on zellige, zillige, zellij or zillij
Bykaterattray December 15, 2009

There seem to be many ways to spell this Islamic method of making tiles, but perhaps it is correctly spelt zillij. Having researched it a bit more, I was fascinated to find out that once the biscuit fired tiles are cut into shapes , glazed and put together as whole geometric tiles, it doesn’t end there!…

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fused glass | mosaic art | sun mosaics | sunsets

Decisions in Copper and Gold
Bykaterattray February 22, 2012

Luckily the weather is a bit warmer this week, encouraging me to get in my shed and get on with the sun mosaic that I wrote about in the last post. I let it slip a bit as the cold was biting into my fingers during the last few weeks, and I wasn’t brave enough…

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Erin McCauliff says:

March 11, 2011 at

These are fantastic, little treasures.

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1. Kate Rattray says:
  
  March 11, 2011 at
  
  Thanks Erin! They are a bit experimental really, I think they need a little refining!
  
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