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There seem to be many ways to spell this Islamic method of making tiles, but perhaps it is correctly spelt zillij. Having researched it a bit more, I was fascinated to find out that once the biscuit fired tiles are cut into shapes , glazed and put together as whole geometric tiles, it doesn’t end there!…
art | bird mosaics | leaf mosaics | mosaic art | mosaic glass tiles | opus sectile | sculpture | skies | sun mosaics | sunrise | sunsets | treesDo Swallows Eat Olives?
This commission for a private customer was a delight to make. My clients wanted a mosaic for their wall outside their house. After initial discussions by email and a site visit I made three drawings and they chose this one. As my clients didn’t want very strong or bright colours I chose to use stained…
“That Thing in the Garden”
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…
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…
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,…
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Unfinished Symphony
I thought you might like to see one of my new pieces included in the “Crust” exhibition in Bath (see last post for details). This was a piece that has been in my sketchbook for a couple of years, and at last I had a chance to make it. The inspiration came from the crows…

