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New Year’s Eve photo-collage
Thank you to my customers and supporters this year and all the best for 2014! 🙂 x
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exhibitions | landscape | mosaic art | skies | sun mosaics | sunsets | trees
Winter
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…
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bird mosaics | butterflies | exhibitions | leaf mosaics | mosaic art | rain | skies | stained glass | sun mosaics | sunrise | sunsets | trees | wind
Exhibitions for Somerset Art Weeks Festival 2013
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”,…
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landscape | leaf mosaics | mosaic art | photography | skies | sun mosaics | sunsets | trees
Together We Grow
As I watched the sun go down over the hill one evening, it shone directly through the middle of a tree in the distance. It seemed as if it had burnt a hole right through the tree and the leaves around it gradually changed colour from orange to green. The photo I took didn’t reveal…
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leaf mosaics | mosaic art | sun mosaics | sunsets | trees
Where the Leaves Meet
Lying on the forest floor looking up at the tops of the trees, the sun shining through fresh green leaves was the inspiration behind this piece. I made several colour drawings using the same design, however I struggled with the green, finding the right shade and how to work it into the design without it looking like a football!…
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bird mosaics | landscape | leaf mosaics | mosaic art | sculpture | skies | stained glass | trees | wind
Voices of the Wind Exhibition
It is 14 days into my exhibition “Voices of the Wind” at Somerset Crafts so I thought it would be a good time to share some photos of it with you. Apart from my four new pieces (in previous posts), I have selected some of my past work dating back to 2006 that fits in well…
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The Last Tree at Delamore
As luck would have it I got a message from a friend from Somerset Crafts who saw my post on facebook asking if anyone could recommend a courier for my 150kg sculpture. He is a stone sculptor so he has a heavy duty trolley and used to lifting heavy lumps of stone. Not only that…
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mosaic art | skies | trees | wind
The Shadow of the Wind
I know I have used the title of Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s fantastic novel, but I couldn’t find another title that seemed right for this piece. “Shadows of the Wind” or “Wind Shadows” just didn’t do it for me – it had to be solid, contained and absolute! The mosaic isn’t directly inspired by the novel , although the…
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mosaic art | skies | trees
Guardian Ash
The Somerset Guild of Craftsmen’s next exhibition is called “Whither The Ash” – it appears to be a very topical theme at the moment, not surprisingly, as we are still losing our beautiful trees. I can’t exhibit my sculpture of “The Last Tree” (see last post) made in response to this issue at the Guild…
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animals | bird mosaics | mosaic art | sculpture | The last tree | trees
The Last Tree
A Prophetic Tree (part 3) If you read the last 2 posts you will have some insight into the sculpture I am making for an exhibition at Delamore House, Devon in May. In response to the very sad and destructive fungal disease causing ash dieback, I have now finished my “remembrance” sculpture/seat. It retraces the path…
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animals | mosaic art | sculpture | The last tree | trees
Cherish the Ash
A PropheticTree (part 2) I took lots of photos of the ash tree bark and chose the tiles I would use, which included some recycled floor tiles that have been in a dark corner of my garden for years and some of my own hand-made stoneware tiles. I studied photos of Viking standing stones from Scandinavia…
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A Prophetic Tree
After the apocalypse on 21 December I hoped my surviving little bird (see video) would take me somewhere new, beautiful and fresh, but it seems I am still on the apocalyptic hill! I feel compelled to make a piece of art about an issue that is very close to home but goes back in history a long way….
