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- animals | lions | mosaic art | sculpture
My lion – progress report 8
A riddle What goes on two golden feet in the morning, four in the afternoon and six in the evening?
Mosaics in schools
I have been making mosaics with schools for 15 years, in fact the first ever mosaic I made was a 2 metre x 2metre mosaic on an outside wall of a school with the kids. Generally the mosaics are designed by the kids, I just facilitate the project, by putting their designs into a format,…
- 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…
art | beetle | mosaic art | mothsWho’s Got the Bug?
Heart Moth It seems that whenever you think of a name for a creature you find out that there is one that really exists with that name. Like the ‘Heart Moth’. I didn’t think there would be one with that name, but there is. It’s a very pretty little moth and lives in wooded areas…
More on zellige, zillige, zellij or zillij
There seem to be many ways to spell this Islamic method of making tiles, but perhaps it is correctly spelt zillij. Having researched it a bit more, I was fascinated to find out that once the biscuit fired tiles are cut into shapes , glazed and put together as whole geometric tiles, it doesn’t end there!…
- bird mosaics | exhibitions | mosaic art | skies | stained glass | sun mosaics | sunrise | sunsets
Many Faces Of The Sun
I have 10 of my mosaic art works in my solo show at Divas Café, Black Swan Arts Centre, Frome. Four of which are new pieces featured in the last posts. In the main gallery there will be an exhibition of paintings by Rachel Anne Grigor. More details here. There is a private view this…