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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…
Every year in November the Somerset Illuminated Carnival takes to the streets delighting and surprising the crowds it draws from all walks of life. The floats are a cacophony of music, lights and theatre. The largest procession is in Bridgwater, and then smaller processions travel to different towns in Somerset. The processions are held in…
We all know how refreshing it is to look at kids art. Unrefined, naive, thoughtful and completely original! Sometimes artists try hard to bring that naivety back. Some succeed but others fail, perhaps they have learned too much about techniques and the world in general. Maybe the best way is not to learn the techniques and not…
Spring has finally come bringing with her flowers and warmth and a wonderful chorus of birds. Two of the birds I have been watching in my garden are a pair of bullfinches. The male donning his dark pink red chest and the female a paler pink. I’m glad to see them because finches are seen…
As a way to relax and spend some time with my daughter after the Sweat and Tears project we made some butterflies for Eve Lynch’s butterfly project. Eve asked mosaic artists from around the world (through the power of the internet) to contribute butterflies for a nature wall in the Calusa Nature Centre in Florida. They were to…