London Olympics 2012
London Olympics 2012

I hope you were as inspired as I was by the London Olympics 2012!
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Sweat and Tears – detail photos
Thank you London Olympics 2012!
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Sweat and Tears – detail photos
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Yesterday evening just before the sun went down I managed to close shop at Somerset Crafts down on the Avalon Marshes in Somerset in time to see thousands and thousands of starlings swooshing over the gallery and on down to the heath. This happens every year at about this time and we have many visitors…
If you read  my last post about the glass on glass technique, you may have recognized the blue glass mosaic with the orange circles. It is a design based on Zillion’s body. This was the first of a small series of designs based on his body and his mane that I will be exhibiting in…
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Ok, ok, I said it would be a week! Well it is only Saturday, just in time for a new week tomorrow! The truth is I had finished the sculpture last Tuesday but I have been working on the stand the rest of the week. I found this concrete stand in a reclamation yard and…
I spent some time deciding on the best way to go about fixing the smaller tears onto the big tear. It would be easier to fix the mosaic onto the tears first and then fix them onto the large (cemented) tear,  the other way would be to fix the polystyrene tears onto the large poly tear…
I find that choosing a suitable name for my mosaic artworks is just  as important as the piece itself. It makes the story whole. The process I use for this choice often starts with a working title, first thought of at the same time as the first sketch. When the mosaic is complete (or during…