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New Year’s Eve photo-collage
Thank you to my customers and supporters this year and all the best for 2014! 🙂 x
art | bird mosaics | city | gold leaf glass | mosaic art | mosaic glass tiles | Orsoni smalti | skies | smalti | sunrise | sunsets | Venician smaltiFive Golden Birds
Five Golden Birds. My latest commission was for a couple who wanted two mosaics to sit inside a couple of outside window recesses. We met in a coffee shop in Glastonbury after they had been to see my exhibition at the Abbey in January, and discussed designs and sizes etc. They were quite into eagles…
More on zellige, zillige, zellij or zillij
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 | bones of saints | exhibitions | feathers | legends | mosaic art | saints | sculpture | stained glassSaint Dunstan Guardian Bird of Relics
The penultimate guardian bird of relics made for the Traces Revealed exhibition at Glastonbury Abbey. Born in Baltonsborough near Glastonbury, Saint Dunstan was guided by the Irish monks in the 10th Century A.D at Glastonbury Abbey. Later he became abbot of the Abbey. When he was canonised after his death, his patronage included metalsmiths, goldsmiths,…
art | mosaic art | moths | skullsDeath Head Moths
I was looking through a book of moths over the holiday and decided to make some. I found the Death’s Head Hawkmoth and remembered seeing one a few years ago outside my back door. I have never seen “Silence of the Lambs”, but I am told by the internet that the moth features in the…
Topps Tiles Award for Achievement in Mosaic
Every year Topps Tiles runs 2 competitions in conjunction with BAMM (British Association for Modern Mosaic). One is a schools mosaic competition and the other is an adult mosaic classes competition. This year I decided to submit some of my students work for the adult classes competition. I submitted 15 works selected from three of…