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The Year 2012!
Thank you to my customers and supporters this year and all the best for 2013! Here are some of the mosaics I have created this year:
Shift : What is the Work of Art?
Last night I went to the preview of “Shift : What is the Work of Art?” at the Black Swan Arts Centre in Frome where I have the pleasure of being one of the artists chosen to take part. Curator, Kim Wood, picked my animations “The Storm” and “Rain” . Outside a glass blower was making a…
My new website
For those of you who come straight to the blog – please visit my new website – https://www.rattraymosaics.co.uk it has been redesigned and programmed by my son. If you want him to make you one contact him through his website http://www.dandart.co.uk As you will see I have taken a flying leap and decided to use…
Public Art in Wells
Yesterday was the swan launch for the Swans of Wells public art project. 20 of the 60 swans were flown in and they settled down on the Cathedral Green while us artists and passers-by mingled and wilted in the heat of the late morning sun. Photographers and TV reporters came and went and after a…
Space invaders, cake and mosaic
Yesterday it was my son’s 13th birthday. I bought him this “space invaders” wallett. (He is almost too young to remember space invaders, and for anyone reading this who is also too young – it was designed and programmed by Toshira Nishikado for Taito, Japan in 1978 as an arcade game) It seemed pretty cool to find this…
St.Brigid Guardian Bird of Relics
It is said that the Irish Saint Brigid (of Kildare) visited Beckery chapel just outside Glastonbury in the 5th Century AD. Although the chapel is no longer there I went to find the hill (Brides mound) where it once was. I wish I had been in on the recent excavations where they re-found seven skeletons…