Lost in the mist of time
Sometimes I like to stray from the glass and make something else, and I love experimental collaborative projects like this one. But I promise there will be another mosaic post soon!
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Sometimes I like to stray from the glass and make something else, and I love experimental collaborative projects like this one. But I promise there will be another mosaic post soon!
This was my third piece for the Mosaic Odysseys festival. I love the story of the four winds in Homer’s Odyssey. Aeolus, keeper of the winds gave Odysseus a bag of wind bound up with silver thread to help him on his journey. He stored it safely on the ship and at first it was…
I spent some very long hours finishing my lion at the end of this week. A 12 hour shift on Tuesday completing the face, followed by a further 10 hours on Wednesday grouting and a final 6 hours cleaning remaining grout and bloom. The grouting was extremely hard work. I used an epoxy grout which…
I will be running a mosaic mix weekend at the Corsley Centre , Warminster, Wiltshire, on February 6th and 7th 2010. The aim of the course will be to use many different materials to create a series of small textural mosaics , (or one bigger one if preferred). It will be a great chance to experiment…
In the valley below the hill where I live there is a small village with a leat running along the edge of the fields and opposite a row of old and pretty cottages. There are often ducks on the leat and once I saw a very raggedy looking heron trying to catch a fish, but…
It’s two weeks before I teach my course at Bristol Creative Glass Guild. I have taught several glass on glass workshops there, but this one is a new course I have devised. It is called “Mosaic Gifts” and students will have the opportunity to make a small light catcher/panel to hang in a window, one…
As a way to relax and spend some time with my daughter after the Sweat and Tears project we made some butterflies for Eve Lynch’s butterfly project. Eve asked mosaic artists from around the world (through the power of the internet) to contribute butterflies for a nature wall in the Calusa Nature Centre in Florida. They were to…