My Lion – progress report 3
What mosaic and dentistry have in common!
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What mosaic and dentistry have in common!
Installation Day – Thursday 21 May Following on from the last post, I managed to fit all the gubbins into my car in one go! Amazing! It was a beautiful day and the guys from the Avalon Marshes dug the pits for my bamboos. Then I took a little time to arrange the birds. I…
Didn’t get far building a sledge yesterday, but walked across the fields with the kids to the village. The snow is blowing across the fields like a sand storm. It is so fine, not like the wet slushy stuff we usually have. On the steepest hill just above the village there are quite a few…
Last night I went to the preview of “Shift : What is the Work of Art?” at the Black Swan Arts Centre in Frome where I have the pleasure of being one of the artists chosen to take part. Curator, Kim Wood, picked my animations “The Storm” and “Rain” . Outside a glass blower was making a…
Recently I moved back to Devon after 21 years in Somerset. It’s taking a while to get used to living in a town here and being surrounded by houses instead of living out in the sticks and being surrounded by fields. However I have the sea and Dartmoor close by, and I can see “Rippon…
I know I have used the title of Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s fantastic novel, but I couldn’t find another title that seemed right for this piece. “Shadows of the Wind” or “Wind Shadows” just didn’t do it for me – it had to be solid, contained and absolute! The mosaic isn’t directly inspired by the novel , although the…
If you read my post The Enchanter, you will remember I used some beautiful vintage tiles in the work that were given to me by mosaicist, Elaine M Goodwin. They are lovely strong coloured thick glass tiles very similar to Italian piastrina smalti. Elaine told me she had purchased them from the Marble Mosaic Company…
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Hi Kate,
Enjoyed this, main looking good…and don’t they just. One of my students is my dental hygienist, and I often tell her that’s what I should have done!!!
I was asked to remove my lion wips from flickr but have to say your video looks more professional than my snapshots.
Good luck with it…it will be fab as always
Helen
Thanks Helen
Shame about flickr – maybe you should get a blog.