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The Relics of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere
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…
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Behold the Lion!
At the end of last week I went to pick up a lion. (One of the more exciting aspects of being an artist!) This lion was quite extraordinary – he was very quiet – in fact he didn’t move at all – but I am hoping I will breathe some life into him. Here is…
Memorial Mosaic
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,…
Mary Mary Quite Contrary Bird Baths
The last few weeks I have been making bird baths for the Bishops Palace English Country Garden Festival in Wells this weekend. Today was the first day but you still have a chance to come along tomorrow or Sunday! I thought how nice it would be to make some work based on a garden theme…
Let There Be Light (and Water)!
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…
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Chasing the Flow
If you are a musician, you probably know what “andamento” means. In mosaic terms, “andamento” is the directional placement, course, or “flow” of tiles in a mosaic. Some of the first mosaics using andamento in interesting ways were made by the Romans. Have a look at this mosaic – this is a section from…
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All the best to you too, Kate!