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New website
Hi folks, Happy New Year! This is just to tell you I have moved my blog to my new website. I will still write posts about my work and if you are an email subscriber you should continue to receive my posts. However if you usually read my posts on the WordPress reader you might…
Summer Mosaic Courses
I have joined forces with Somerset Crafts members in their gallery at Westhay (what used to be the Peat Moors Centre) on the levels near Glastonbury. This is the website www.somersetcrafts.com . Like myself most of the members there are also members of the Somerset Guild of Craftsmen. If you are in the area then…
Flying through the Dark into the Light
In 2009 I was taken out of my comfort zone when making a mosaic for the Heavens above exhibition at the Opus Gallery in Exeter. I am used to working with warm bright colours and golds, but I decided to make a night sky mosaic using a lot of black. The swan wasn’t so bad…
Thank God for Chocolate Coins!
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,…
My new website
For those of you who come straight to the blog – please visit my new website – https://www.rattraymosaics.co.uk it has been redesigned and programmed by my son. If you want him to make you one contact him through his website http://www.dandart.co.uk As you will see I have taken a flying leap and decided to use…
Decisions in Copper and Gold
Luckily the weather is a bit warmer this week, encouraging me to get in my shed and get on with the sun mosaic that I wrote about in the last post. I let it slip a bit as the cold was biting into my fingers during the last few weeks, and I wasn’t brave enough…