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It was a nice day so we thought we would put the lion out to pasture. My daughter wanted to feed the lion a chocolate egg ………
It is too cold to work in my shed. I have an energy saving heater in there – so energy saving it barely warms up above 0 degrees. Even with my thermals and my fingerless gloves, I am still too cold to work. It is mostly my feet. I wear two pairs of socks, the…
Last weekend I took my mosaic “Bella’s Secret” to the submission day for the Bath Society of Artists summer exhibition. I imagine it is a similar set up to the RA exhibition in London except there was not a mile long queue outside the doors! I had taken the park and ride bus and had…
It isn’t long now before I have to get some new work finished for an exhibition at the Craft Gallery at the Dartington Cider Press Centre (famous for its Dartington Glass) . It has been a busy year with lions and workshops and the work I have been planning for this exhibition has had to…
Yesterday I was at St. Josephs Catholic school in Bridgwater completing a mosaic started the day before with the children. It was a memorial mosaic for a much loved learning support assisant , dinner lady and head gardener at the school who died recently. My brief was to design the mosaic using their school logo,…
I enjoyed teaching students my new course – Mosaic Gifts at Bristol Creative Glass Guild. I taught them how to make glass on glass pieces direct and indirect. They made coasters on mirror – one direct and one indirect, pendants, and a light catcher to hang in the window. This piece I gave them the…
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…