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This is the second piece I made for the Mosaic Odysseys festival. I don’t think it needs much explanation except that I see the sun as an enchanter…always luring me towards him. And how enchanting he always is, how beautiful he colours the sky when he rises and sets. I want to bask in his light and feel his warmth…
The Whirlwind That Takes Me There I’ve been making some new work in the last few months for a festival of mosaic art involving 6 Greek and 4 other UK mosaic artists. We aim to promote a cultural exchange between Greek and British mosaic artists in order to develop friendships and a professional network between…
The last few weeks I have been making bird baths for the Bishops Palace English Country Garden Festival in Wells this weekend. Today was the first day but you still have a chance to come along tomorrow or Sunday! I thought how nice it would be to make some work based on a garden theme…
TEN YEARS An exhibition of mosaic art by Kate Rattray at Somerset Guild of Craftsmen, 23a Broad Street, Wells BA5 2DJ 9th May – 13th June 2016 PRIVATE VIEW – Friday 20th May 4-6pm I am delighted to announce that I am presenting 10 years of my work at the new back room gallery at…
Installation Day – Thursday 21 May Following on from the last post, I managed to fit all the gubbins into my car in one go! Amazing! It was a beautiful day and the guys from the Avalon Marshes dug the pits for my bamboos. Then I took a little time to arrange the birds. I…
For the last few weeks I have been making starlings for a sculpture trail on Shapwick Heath nature reserve along the Avalon Marshes in Somerset. As you know I have become completely obsessed with these amazing birds even after they have left the area! I wanted to make my own flock so that would always…
I was asked by my sponsors of my Zillion lion (Zenith International) made in 2010, if I would decorate an egg for the Bath Egg Hunt. It is to celebrate The Egg Theatre’s 10th Anniversary. This isn’t paid work but it is small (about 12 inches high) and gives me a chance to experiment and…
Yesterday evening just before the sun went down I managed to close shop at Somerset Crafts down on the Avalon Marshes in Somerset in time to see thousands and thousands of starlings swooshing over the gallery and on down to the heath. This happens every year at about this time and we have many visitors…
I have just returned from a long weekend in the beautiful city of Chartres, and a day in Paris. My two teenage children accompanied me (luckily, or I would have got lost many times!) and we enjoyed an overload of mosaic art, architecture and history! We stayed in an apartment overlooking the side of the…
I am jumping around my garden today like a Morris dancer, not just because it is the 1st of May! I woke up to two exciting email announcements. Firstly two of my mosaics “Chorus at the Wake of the Sun” and “Unfinished Symphony” have been selected for a prestigious mosaic exhibition in Chartres, France….
Today the weather is wild! The wind and rain is whipping around my house in a continuous surge of chaotic energy. Nothing at all like my mosaic here depicting winter on a beautiful evening in the snow. I remember an evening like this a few years ago, a bit later on in the winter, January…
If you are visiting Somerset this year for Somerset Art Weeks you can purchase my work at Somerset Crafts on the levels (venue number 95) and at the Courthouse Gallery, Somerset Guild of Craftsmen, Somerton, (venue number 53). And while you are in Somerset don’t forget to visit my exhibition “Many Faces of the Sun”,…