My Lion – progress report 3

Bykaterattray March 24, 2010

What mosaic and dentistry have in common!

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bird mosaics | mosaic art | stained glass | sunsets

Egrets at Somerset Crafts
Bykaterattray August 31, 2012

Egrets at Somerset Crafts Several months ago I joined Somerset Crafts – a group of artists who exhibit work in a gallery at Westhay on the Avalon Marshes in the Somerset Levels. Most of us are also members of the Somerset Guild of Craftsmen based at the Courthouse gallery in Somerton. We manage the gallery between…

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bird mosaics | mosaic art | sun mosaics | sunsets | trees

Mendip Sunset
Bykaterattray May 28, 2014

I take so many photos of the landscape around me, usually they serve as reference points for work that takes me somewhere beyond that which is seen. This time I decided to make a couple of pieces that are purely representational. At least more or less ! The first inspired by this dramatic sunset last…

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art | bird mosaics | flowers | leaf mosaics | mosaic art | mosaic workshops | school mosaics

What do the four seasons, four birds, and a key have in common?
Bykaterattray June 26, 2017January 30, 2021

This school was a joy to work with. A small primary school of just over 100 pupils, every child was able to take part in making it. I was sent lots of drawings from the children to use for a design and spent a day sketching possibilities and a final cartoon. I spent a couple…

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animals | lions | mosaic art | sculpture

My Lion – progress report 5
Bykaterattray April 1, 2010

I wanted to carry on tiling onto the tummy. I know not many people will look underneath him, but there is always one, and besides it doesn’t feel right to leave any bits out. I do however, think I am able to be a little less precise and use more whole tiles. So here is…

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bird mosaics | mosaic art | skies | sunrise | wind

The Wind Eagle
Bykaterattray April 5, 2013

Whilst researching Norse myths for my ash tree trunk sculpture I came across a poem telling the origin of the wind. It went like this: Hraesvelg, he is called, who sits at heaven’s end, a giant in eagle’s shape. From his wings, it is said, the winds blow over all men (The Sibyl’s Prophecy. 37)…

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Public Art in Wells
Bykaterattray May 29, 2012

Yesterday was the swan launch for the Swans of Wells public art project. 20 of the 60 swans were flown in and they settled down on the Cathedral Green while us artists and passers-by mingled and wilted in the heat of the late morning sun. Photographers and TV reporters came and went and after a…

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Helen Nock says:

March 25, 2010 at

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

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1. Kate Rattray says:
  
  March 25, 2010 at
  
  Thanks Helen
  Shame about flickr – maybe you should get a blog.
  
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