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Craft and Design Selected Awards
I’ve been entered into this competition for my work. The finalists are chosen by public vote. To vote, you click on a link on the page for your chosen maker on the craft&design Selected website, and then on another link in an email to confirm your vote. A panel of judges choose the winners…
New Years Morning 2010
I was up at dawn to watch the sunrise this morning. I tramped over the field to get some photos. The moon was full. It was very cold, the ground was crunchy with frost. The sky had a muted pink glow and it was gradually brightening. My fingers were numb (wearing my newly acquired fingerless…
art | bird mosaics | bones of saints | exhibitions | feathers | legends | mosaic art | saints | sculpture | stained glassSaint Dunstan Guardian Bird of Relics
The penultimate guardian bird of relics made for the Traces Revealed exhibition at Glastonbury Abbey. Born in Baltonsborough near Glastonbury, Saint Dunstan was guided by the Irish monks in the 10th Century A.D at Glastonbury Abbey. Later he became abbot of the Abbey. When he was canonised after his death, his patronage included metalsmiths, goldsmiths,…
Bird of the Apocalypse
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Sweat and Tears – part 8
I have completed the tears on the other side. This is the side with the face. I found a photo of Jodie Williams on the web and I drew it and distorted it so that it would look like her reflection in the tear. Jodie Williams is a British 17 year old sprinter who will…
- leaf mosaics | mosaic art | sun mosaics | sunsets | trees
The Embrace
My sun and tree mosaic is finished. I had to redo the leaves because I originally made them onto glass that I cut slightly bigger than the leaf parts laid onto it. I did this as a way to make the grout line around the leaves quite thick, however it just resulted in looking clumsy….