My Lion – progress report 4

Bykaterattray March 30, 2010

Having decided I like the gold glass, I have to wait for a bigger order of it. So in the meantime I am working on the body.

bird mosaics | butterflies | mosaic art | skies | stained glass | sun mosaics | sunrise

Where The Flying Things Go
Bykaterattray August 22, 2013

The design for this mosaic was a culmination of ideas and past work. I was still working out how I was going to put it all together when one day last week the sky gave me the final piece of the puzzle and the motivation to start. This was how the sky looked that day:…

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bird mosaics | mosaic art | stained glass | sun mosaics | sunsets

Chorus of the Sun
Bykaterattray October 26, 2011

My new series of three works is now complete. The first piece – “Before the Dawn” is made with matt ceramic and glass tile (the sun is iridescent black glass tile) and gold leaf smalti. The second and third pieces are stained glass. I am off to my framers now so the pieces will be ready…

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mosaic art | mosaic workshops | musical instruments | school mosaics

Blow Your Trumpet King’s Hall!
Bykaterattray July 14, 2013

I was delighted to be asked back to King’s Hall school in Taunton this year to help them make some more mosaics. Last year we made The Pelican for their courtyard garden, this time the art teacher asked me to design a trumpet, guitar and saxophone to brighten up their music department. It was the…

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city | mosaic art | Olympic Sculpture | Olympics | street art

“That Thing in the Garden”
Bykaterattray May 31, 2012

I went to Bath today to get some photos of my sculpture “Sweat and Tears” I made as a guest artist for the Art at the Edge public art project. The project aims to celebrate the Olympics whilst raising money from sales of work for causes that improve opportunities for disadvantaged young people. I thought…

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bird mosaics | mosaic art | sea | skies | sun mosaics | sunsets | wind

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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leaf mosaics | mosaic art | sun mosaics | sunsets | trees

The Embrace
Bykaterattray March 14, 2012

My sun and tree mosaic is finished. I had to redo the leaves because I originally made them onto glass that I cut slightly bigger than the leaf parts laid onto it. I did this as a way to make the grout line around the leaves quite thick, however it just resulted in looking clumsy….

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Jean Kinloch says:

March 31, 2010 at

love it Kate!!

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