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Sunshine Pendants
On a wet grey day back in March I made my first sunshine pendant. I made it to cheer me up and to remind me always to bring the sun with me! Well maybe it was chance but no sooner had I put it on the sky started to clear and the rest of the…
mosaic art | skies | stained glass | sun mosaics | sunsetsWhere All The Fish Go
That mottled sky that inspired “Where The Flying Things Go” (see last post) led to another mosaic, more relevant to the mottled or “mackerel” sky as it is known. It is known as mackerel as the cloud formations resemble the markings on a mackerel fish. Here is another look at that sky: This time I wanted…
art | gardens | gold leaf glass | landscape | mosaic art | mosaic glass tiles | Orsoni smalti | plants | sculpture | smalti | stained glass | sun mosaics | sunrise | treesFronds in the Sun
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…
Inspiration
I am lucky enough not to have a problem with finding inspiration – hence the reason I always have more than one mosaic happening at a time. I remember when I started my degree in Creative Arts back in 1986, I had no ideas, and my first piece of work was a self portrait collage with…
Crafty Animators
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…
Garden Treasure Bird Pool
Welcome to new followers and thank you for all your lovely comments about my Pool of Dreams bird bath. I must admit I was a bit overwhelmed but feel privileged to have been featured on Discover . I have made another bird pool. This one is a lot smaller and constructed by using my other…

