mosaic art

My new website

Bykaterattray February 9, 2010

For those of you who come straight to the blog – please visit my new website – https://www.rattraymosaics.co.uk it has been redesigned and programmed by my son. If you want him to make you one contact him through his website

http://www.dandart.co.uk

As you will see I have taken a flying leap and decided to use twitter (being a lover of birds it seemed to make sense)

and if you like to use facebook you can find me on

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kate-Rattray-Mosaics/325000880357

But this blog will still be my main page for news.

mosaic art | mosaic glass tiles

Marble Mosaic Company and Ansar Mosaic

Bykaterattray August 1, 2016March 6, 2021

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…

Fronds in the Sun

Bykaterattray October 10, 2019January 31, 2021

This summer I was asked to make a mosaic for a couple’s Golden Wedding Anniversary to place on a tree in their woodland garden. The brief was “something fairly abstract, with a suggestion of plants and flowing water and using reds, oranges, golds and magenta’s, the size to be about 120m x 50cm” It was…

The Relics of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere

Bykaterattray September 28, 2017

As I mentioned in the last post I will be posting fairly regularly in the next few weeks to show you my work for the Glastonbury Abbey exhibition “Traces Revealed” The inspiration for the pieces I made came from the abbey’s precious relics that were once in abundance in medieval times but then lost or…

Let There Be Light (and Water)!

Bykaterattray April 14, 2017July 27, 2021

Pool of Dreams I wanted to make a bird bath loosely based on The Whirlwind That Takes Me There only using a different colour palette. Like my Pretty Maids and cockle shell bird baths, I made this one by hand forming the base using wire, glass fibre mesh (I recycle the mesh sheets that mosaic…

bird mosaics | leaf mosaics | mosaic art | sun mosaics | sunsets

Shopping in the Woods

Bykaterattray December 10, 2013January 20, 2020

Fancy shopping in the woods? All that fresh air and nature. See more woodland inspired mosaics here And sun inspired ones here If you like my work you might want to sign up to my newsletter. I offer discounts of my work and you’ll get invites to my exhibitions. You can sign up here 😉

Saint Dunstan Guardian Bird of Relics

Bykaterattray October 11, 2017February 5, 2021

The penultimate guardian bird of relics made for the Traces Revealed exhibition at Glastonbury Abbey. Born in Baltonsborough near Glastonbury, Saint Dunstan was guided by the Irish monks in the 10th Century A.D at Glastonbury Abbey. Later he became abbot of the Abbey. When he was canonised after his death, his patronage included metalsmiths, goldsmiths,…

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