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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…
This was my third piece for the Mosaic Odysseys festival. I love the story of the four winds in Homer’s Odyssey. Aeolus, keeper of the winds gave Odysseus a bag of wind bound up with silver thread to help him on his journey. He stored it safely on the ship and at first it was…
This is the second piece I made for the Mosaic Odysseys festival. I don’t think it needs much explanation except that I see the sun as an enchanter…always luring me towards him. And how enchanting he always is, how beautiful he colours the sky when he rises and sets. I want to bask in his light and feel his warmth…
The Whirlwind That Takes Me There I’ve been making some new work in the last few months for a festival of mosaic art involving 6 Greek and 4 other UK mosaic artists. We aim to promote a cultural exchange between Greek and British mosaic artists in order to develop friendships and a professional network between…
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…
TEN YEARS An exhibition of mosaic art by Kate Rattray at Somerset Guild of Craftsmen, 23a Broad Street, Wells BA5 2DJ 9th May – 13th June 2016 PRIVATE VIEW – Friday 20th May 4-6pm I am delighted to announce that I am presenting 10 years of my work at the new back room gallery at…
For the last two weeks and for the following two weeks I have several pieces of my work in a new pop up shop in Angel, Islington, London. Makers & Friends is at 126 Upper Street, selling hand made jewellery, prints, cushions, soaps and herbal concoctions. I haven’t visited yet but I hear the shop…
The Four Seasons I don’t know how relevant the four seasons are any more. Our climate is changing and maybe we won’t feel the difference between the seasons quite so much as we did when we were young. I’m writing this watching snow fall outside my window and with layers of clothes on as our…
You might remember last year I made some gilded glass brooches, bees (Bah Humbug Bees) and fish (Fish for Funky Punks). They were sold so quickly from various outlets, so this year I thought I would make some more. This time I have redesigned them so they are more refined and they are made of…
I have been revisiting an idea I had in 2011 where I made three pieces of work for an exhibition called “Flocks” at the Craft Centre in Dartington, Devon. You can see the 2011 works here You can also read about my experiments using photoshop to get an idea of grout colour and how it…
If you read the story from the last post, you will understand what this is all about. If you didn’t then read it here Moths on the Moon To purchase any of these mosaics, click the pictures. I also have a cluster of moon moths that I had gathered together from a recent trip on…
Once upon a time, a very long time ago, before humans attempted to rule the earth, before a human was even born in fact, back in the time when the earth was made of blue butterflies, there was a very beautiful blue butterfly Queen, her name was Arion. Her particular skills were sky dancing, and…