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Mosaic Mix Weekend

Bykaterattray February 2, 2010

This weekend I am running a mosaic mix workshop. I mentioned in a previous post that the aim of the course is to make a textural mosaic with a variety of mosaic materials.

Each student receives a 3 page ideas file prior to the workshop. This is a photo of a small sample mosaic in the pack.

The mosaic is made of ceramic rounds, glass pieces, gold leaf glass, ceramic tile, slate and smalti. It was inspired by this photo I took of some tree bark:

There are still 1 or 2 last minute places available on the course. Contact me on katerattray@hotmail.co.uk if you want to book!

The Robert Plant Guardian Bird of Relics

Bykaterattray October 13, 2017February 5, 2021

And so to the final one of the six birds! It’s Robert Plant, our wonderful living rock legend! I thought it would be nice to have someone who is still alive as inspiration for a guardian bird. I chose Mr. Plant because of his connections with Glastonbury and the Abbey itself. In 2014 for the…

bird mosaics | mosaic art | sun mosaics | sunsets

Gathering Darkness

Bykaterattray November 3, 2011

I collected another new piece of work from my framers yesterday. This is “Gathering Darkness”. It takes the idea from my Flocked series – How the Sky Becomes Blue and The Birds Who Bring the Dusk (see mosaics here) into the night. It was also inspired by staring at Deep Sunset through the Woods (see mosaic here)…

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Death Head Moths

Bykaterattray January 25, 2019January 5, 2020

I was looking through a book of moths over the holiday and decided to make some. I found the Death’s Head Hawkmoth and remembered seeing one a few years ago outside my back door. I have never seen “Silence of the Lambs”, but I am told by the internet that the moth features in the…

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Inspiration

Bykaterattray January 13, 2010

I am lucky enough not to have a problem with finding inspiration – hence the reason I always have more than one mosaic happening at a time. I remember when I started my degree in Creative Arts back in 1986, I had no ideas, and my first piece of work was a self portrait collage with…

Passage to the Sun

Bykaterattray November 28, 2012

Hooray! My book is ready. Full of lovely pictures of my mosaics, and drawings never seen! It would make a good Christmas present! Read about it and order from Blurb here! Passage to the… Mosaic Art By Kate Rattray Book Preview

Flight from the Waves of Solway

Bykaterattray March 8, 2015

I was delighted to receive another commission from my customer who commissioned the hob back splash Sunset over the Solway . The brief was to make a smaller picture that would have echos or elements of the larger mosaic whilst also adding something of the magic from a piece she had just bought from my…

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