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I have made three new birds for a group mosaic exhibition “Picking Up The Pieces” with South West Mosaic Artists, currently showing at Cockington Court, Torquay. As usual I interpreted the title of the exhibition quite literally. I imagined what the world would be like after the apocalypse (here I am again, all doom and…
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Last weekend was great! I had a lively group who came to the workshop at Wells museum! This included my two youngest kids and friends. Most only stayed for Saturday, but one student did both days, so on Sunday she came to my workshed. Pictures of the group and their mosaics are on the workshop…
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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,…
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art | gardens | gold leaf glass | landscape | mosaic art | mosaic glass tiles | Orsoni smalti | plants | sculpture | smalti | stained glass | sun mosaics | sunrise | treesFronds in the Sun
This summer I was asked to make a mosaic for a couple’s Golden Wedding Anniversary to place on a tree in their woodland garden. The brief was “something fairly abstract, with a suggestion of plants and flowing water and using reds, oranges, golds and magenta’s, the size to be about 120m x 50cm” It was…