Passage to the Sun
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Hooray!
My book is ready.
Full of lovely pictures of my mosaics, and drawings never seen!
It would make a good Christmas present!
Read about it and order from Blurb here!
My second “representational” landscape mosaic (see last post for the first) was inspired by the intensely bright yellow wild rape and the white cow parsley edging the road on my way to Somerset Crafts on the Avalon Marshes. I made a sketch I decided to make this indirect as my yellow stained glass was thinner…
Recently I moved back to Devon after 21 years in Somerset. It’s taking a while to get used to living in a town here and being surrounded by houses instead of living out in the sticks and being surrounded by fields. However I have the sea and Dartmoor close by, and I can see “Rippon…
I have been playing about with Photoshop these past weeks, in between working on my pieces in my shed for the Bird Exhibition. I am using it to edit all 268 photos for my new animation. I also found it useful to help me make a grout decision on one of my pieces. In this mosaic the…
Stop motion mosaic animation. This is a “raw scrapbook” version. “The Tree” questions man’s relationship with nature. The song “niebo placze” is Polish and means “the sky is crying”. This was a bonus as I chose it first for the music which seemed to fit the animation so perfectly. It is best played in HD…
… mind their own business as they are walking down the street! My eldest son has just left home and got a job in Walsall, near Birmingham. I went up with him to help him look for a flat and I wondered what the chances were of finding a mosaic in the town when lo…
The Somerset Guild of Craftsmen’s next exhibition is called “Whither The Ash” – it appears to be a very topical theme at the moment, not surprisingly, as we are still losing our beautiful trees. I can’t exhibit my sculpture of “The Last Tree” (see last post) made in response to this issue at the Guild…