My Lion – progress report 3

Bykaterattray March 24, 2010

What mosaic and dentistry have in common!

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bird mosaics | landscape | mosaic art | skies | wind

Wind Whips
Bykaterattray March 24, 2013

I’m working on a new series of mosaics for my showcase exhibition “Voices of the Wind” at Somerset Crafts in May. It’s a tight deadline but I’m hoping to produce at least 4 new pieces . My first piece is called “Wind Whips“. This was the first drawing: I liked the black “whips” streaming out from the…

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apocalypse | art | bird mosaics | feathers | legends | mosaic art | mosaic glass tiles | Orsoni smalti | sculpture | smalti | stained glass | sun mosaics | sunrise | sunsets

The Phoenix
Bykaterattray August 17, 2018January 5, 2020

This year it was so hot a phoenix arose from the sizzling sun Sunglasses on we tried to see it’s wings unfurl Still the bright golds burnt our eyes Taking it’s first flight we saw the feathers turning into flames And for all it’s beauty there lay a monster of our own image making wild…

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mosaic art

Crafty Animators
Bykaterattray January 10, 2011

I was so taken up with the flu and with Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s novel in the last post that I forgot to wish you all a very happy 2011! So here it is – HAPPY 2011! (and may all your wishes come true!) The first exhibition I am involved in this year is a bit…

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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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mosaic art | mosaic workshops | school mosaics | swans of Wells

Summer Mosaic Courses
Bykaterattray June 10, 2012

I have joined forces with Somerset Crafts members in their gallery at Westhay (what used to be the Peat Moors Centre) on the levels near Glastonbury. This is the website www.somersetcrafts.com . Like myself most of the members there are also members of the Somerset Guild of Craftsmen. If you are in the area then…

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leaf mosaics | mosaic art

Autumn Leaves
Bykaterattray October 31, 2013

Earlier this year I made some leaves using gilded glass and stained glass. They are quite chunky because they are covered in mosaic both sides but I quite like them. I’m not alone either as two of them have been bought from Somerset Crafts gallery in the last week. I decided to make some more…

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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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