Devon Open Studios 2022

Devon Open Studios 2022

For the first time this year I’m participating in Devon Open Studios and I’ll be throwing open my doors to visitors. I’ll have a menagerie of birds and mythical creatures (including a couple of flying ships) adorning the walls and a large cartoon and progress so far of a new mural mosaic commission. Meanwhile in…

The Rat Comes Too!

The Rat Comes Too!

Meet the rat.He keeps me awake at night racing around inside the crumbling walls in my house so I’ve sent him off with the pigeon who is pretty good at bouncing his hollow coos down the chimney at the crack of dawn! How does anyone get any sleep here!This is a new piece to go…

Glastonbury Tor mosaic
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Glastonbury Tor Mosaic Kit

Recently I moved back to Devon after 21 years in Somerset. It’s taking a while to get used to living in a town here and being surrounded by houses instead of living out in the sticks and being surrounded by fields. However I have the sea and Dartmoor close by, and I can see “Rippon…

A way to escape

A way to escape

Here we are in week 10 of the Covid 19 lockdown. I found myself having panic attacks on the first week, every time I watched the news I felt sick and started shaking. On the second week I began to relax when I realised there was nothing I could do (apart from staying home to…

Picking Up The Pieces – The Clean Up Birds
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Picking Up The Pieces – The Clean Up Birds

I have made three new birds for a group mosaic exhibition “Picking Up The Pieces” with South West Mosaic Artists, currently showing at Cockington Court, Torquay. As usual I interpreted the title of the exhibition quite literally. I imagined what the world would be like after the apocalypse (here I am again, all doom and…

Fronds in the Sun
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Fronds in the Sun

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…