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A couple of weeks ago I was a student for a day on a glass fusing course. My only past experience with glass fusing was when I was 12 years old, when I made a pendant. I still have it, but unfortunately it broke into two when it was dropped a couple of years ago. The course…
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…
The next stage of the Olympic sculpture was to organise and order tiles. I want the sweat and the tears to look as if they are on skin, so the tiles I choose are very like water glass tiles – they have a coloured base with thick clear glass on the top, and represent the…
Every year Topps Tiles runs 2 competitions in conjunction with BAMM (British Association for Modern Mosaic). One is a schools mosaic competition and the other is an adult mosaic classes competition. This year I decided to submit some of my students work for the adult classes competition. I submitted 15 works selected from three of…
I thought you might like to see one of my new pieces included in the “Crust” exhibition in Bath (see last post for details). This was a piece that has been in my sketchbook for a couple of years, and at last I had a chance to make it. The inspiration came from the crows…
‘Birds of omen dark and foul, Night-crow, raven, bat, and owl, Leave the sick man to his dream – All night long he heard your scream’ from an Ancient Gaelic Melody by Sir Walter Scott As early man was fearful of the night it is not surprising that ancient stories depict the owl as a…