angels | art | exhibitions | gold leaf glass | mosaic art
The Watcher
Seraphim at the Bishops Palace, Wells
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art | bird mosaics | legends | mosaic art | sculpture
A Little Bird Told Me
A little bird told me to look for legends about the Blue tit. I found this old Cherokee Indian story about the Chickadee and the Titmouse (in UK the Chickadee is similar to a coal tit with it’s black cap and the Titmouse is like the Tufted Tit with it’s crested head, and all from…
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art | beetle | mosaic art
The Beetle
Did you know there are over 350,000 species of beetles in the world, and that’s just the ones that have been discovered? According to https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/side_O_0/beetles_01 this compares to “250,000 described species of plants, 12,000 described species of roundworms, and only 4,000 described species of mammals” And it’s not surprising as the beetle species has evolved…
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art | beetle | mosaic art | moths
Who’s Got the Bug?
Heart Moth It seems that whenever you think of a name for a creature you find out that there is one that really exists with that name. Like the ‘Heart Moth’. I didn’t think there would be one with that name, but there is. It’s a very pretty little moth and lives in wooded areas…
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art | mosaic art | moths | skulls
Death Head Moths
I was looking through a book of moths over the holiday and decided to make some. I found the Death’s Head Hawkmoth and remembered seeing one a few years ago outside my back door. I have never seen “Silence of the Lambs”, but I am told by the internet that the moth features in the…
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art | bird mosaics | mosaic art | sculpture
Midnight Star Lings
The Midnight Star Lings (The Birds Who Bring Stars) It’s lovely to watch the starlings return this year. They gather on the fields and the farmyards to feed, then fly off together to roost in the reeds down on the levels. If I’m lucky I see a murmuration at sunset when I’m at the Avalon…
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art | bees | bird mosaics | butterflies | flowers | leaf mosaics | mosaic art | mosaic glass tiles | skies | stained glass | sun mosaics | sunrise | trees
Tree of Life at the RUH
This summer I was commissioned to make a “Tree of Life” mosaic to raise awareness of organ donation for the Royal United Hospital in Bath. When the organ donation hospital team were looking for inspiration for a tree of life, they found my Olive Tree on my website and got in touch. It was a…
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animals | art | gold leaf glass | sculpture
The Missing Tusk
Interventions at Wells & Mendip Museum As a member of the Somerset Guild of Craftsmen I had the opportunity to make a new piece of work for this exciting exhibition which is in conjunction with Wells Art Contemporary Inspired by the artifacts in the Wells and Mendip Museum, local artists and craftsmen have placed new…
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art | bird mosaics | exhibitions | mosaic art | sculpture | sun mosaics
Somerset Open Studios 2018
As I have been teaching mosaic workshops at the Heritage Courtyard Studios and Gallery in Wells, I was delighted when a small studio became vacant. This makes things a little easier when it comes to storing workshop materials and being able to show my work to students and collectors. I also work in it, the…
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apocalypse | art | bird mosaics | feathers | legends | mosaic art | mosaic glass tiles | Orsoni smalti | sculpture | smalti | stained glass | sun mosaics | sunrise | sunsets
The Phoenix
This year it was so hot a phoenix arose from the sizzling sun Sunglasses on we tried to see it’s wings unfurl Still the bright golds burnt our eyes Taking it’s first flight we saw the feathers turning into flames And for all it’s beauty there lay a monster of our own image making wild…
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art | bees | bird mosaics | feathers | flowers | legends | mosaic glass tiles | owls
Blodeuwedd (Flower Face)
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…
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art | bird mosaics | mosaic art | sculpture
Swallows and Goldfinches
Goldfinches I absolutely love the voices of Goldfinches, just like tiny little tinkling bells, and have you noticed that they also sing when they fly, so they fly in a sort of up and down rhythm that makes them look quite comical like a Disney cartoon! The Goldfinch is a symbol of life, exuberance and…
