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… mind their own business as they are walking down the street!
My eldest son has just left home and got a job in Walsall, near Birmingham. I went up with him to help him look for a flat and I wondered what the chances were of finding a mosaic in the town when lo and behold I looked up and saw these two happy go lucky monks smiling down at me! I don’t know who made them – but they are quite fun!
A Prophetic Tree (part 3) If you read the last 2 posts you will have some insight into the sculpture I am making for an exhibition at Delamore House, Devon in May. In response to the very sad and destructive fungal disease causing ash dieback, I have now finished my “remembrance” sculpture/seat. It retraces the path…
A little bird told me to look for legends about the Blue tit. I found this old Cherokee Indian story about the Chickadee and the Titmouse (in UK the Chickadee is similar to a coal tit with it’s black cap and the Titmouse is like the Tufted Tit with it’s crested head, and all from…
Mosaic artist Irit Levy from Monaco, has written a short review about a mosaic I made called “Silver Birch Trees at Sunset”. You can read it on her blog: http://iritlevyart.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/birch-trees-taking-it-farther-to-abstract/ She has also written about several other mosaics by various artists on her blog : “Mosaic is Art “.
Wow, what a summer we are having! It is hot, hot, hot! I made more bird baths to take to the Bishops Palace Garden Festival this year and some more Kingfishers and some Swallows and some Goldfinches. (The birds will be in the next post) (stained glass, iridescent glass, glass rod, millefiori, German cabochons, gold…
The fields in the last few weeks have been an abundance of yellow buttercups. I couldn’t do it much justice with my photos but it was much better than this: The skies have been pretty impressive too: No need to look far for inspiration! I made this mosaic indirectly only because I had to work…
The last few weeks I have been making bird baths for the Bishops Palace English Country Garden Festival in Wells this weekend. Today was the first day but you still have a chance to come along tomorrow or Sunday! I thought how nice it would be to make some work based on a garden theme…