Glastonbury Tor Mosaic Kit
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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…

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…

New website

New website

Hi folks, Happy New Year! This is just to tell you I have moved my blog to my new website. I will still write posts about my work and if you are an email subscriber you should continue to receive my posts. However if you usually read my posts on the WordPress reader you might…

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…

The Angels Who …

The Angels Who …

Re-Formation Exhibition 22 July – 6th October 2019 A fine art exhibition taking place with Somerset artists at the Bishop’s Palace and Heritage Courtyard Gallery, Wells As well as the Seraphim (The Watcher) which hangs on the outside cafe wall at the Bishops Palace, I made two small angels for the exhibition. These are displayed…

The Beetle
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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…