Rain
Just made this stop – motion animation using two photos of the mosaic “Rain” that I made in 2005.
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Just made this stop – motion animation using two photos of the mosaic “Rain” that I made in 2005.
I had a day off the other week so I went to Lyme Regis on the Jurassic coast on the Devon/Dorset border. I had a hunt for some fossils on the beach but the best finds were on a stall on the front. I bought this wonderful piece of polished fossilised coral which is 345…
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…
You know what it is like when someone has seen your work, then you post a photo of it on the web, and they say “the photo doesn’t do your work justice”. You are sure your photo was a good one so it leaves you feeling very good about your work. That’s great, but what…
You won’t believe the trouble I had trying to find suitable gold foil for the underside of my sun! In the previous post I showed you the transparent smalti laid onto some gold foiled tape. I thought this is the stuff I would use, I have a big reel of it, however it is sticky,…
Last weekend I took my mosaic “Bella’s Secret” to the submission day for the Bath Society of Artists summer exhibition. I imagine it is a similar set up to the RA exhibition in London except there was not a mile long queue outside the doors! I had taken the park and ride bus and had…
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…