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The title of this piece came to me through the radio whilst I was making it. That beautiful song written by George Harrison “While my Guitar Gently Weeps,” was playing. All I had to do was replace the guitar for the moon! It was exactly how I saw my mosaic. A waning moon weeping pieces…
Earlier this year I made some leaves using gilded glass and stained glass. They are quite chunky because they are covered in mosaic both sides but I quite like them. I’m not alone either as two of them have been bought from Somerset Crafts gallery in the last week. I decided to make some more…
If you are visiting Somerset this year for Somerset Art Weeks you can purchase my work at Somerset Crafts on the levels (venue number 95) and at the Courthouse Gallery, Somerset Guild of Craftsmen, Somerton, (venue number 53). And while you are in Somerset don’t forget to visit my exhibition “Many Faces of the Sun”,…
I have 10 of my mosaic art works in my solo show at Divas Café, Black Swan Arts Centre, Frome. Four of which are new pieces featured in the last posts. In the main gallery there will be an exhibition of paintings by Rachel Anne Grigor. More details here. There is a private view this…
That mottled sky that inspired “Where The Flying Things Go” (see last post) led to another mosaic, more relevant to the mottled or “mackerel” sky as it is known. It is known as mackerel as the cloud formations resemble the markings on a mackerel fish. Here is another look at that sky: This time I wanted…
The design for this mosaic was a culmination of ideas and past work. I was still working out how I was going to put it all together when one day last week the sky gave me the final piece of the puzzle and the motivation to start. This was how the sky looked that day:…
As I watched the sun go down over the hill one evening, it shone directly through the middle of a tree in the distance. It seemed as if it had burnt a hole right through the tree and the leaves around it gradually changed colour from orange to green. The photo I took didn’t reveal…
I have wanted to make this piece for sometime now, and finally I have got round to it. It is a development of a mosaic I made in 2011 called “Gathering Darkness“. It is one of my favourite pieces and despite several of my customers asking if they could buy it, I have found I…
I was delighted to be asked back to King’s Hall school in Taunton this year to help them make some more mosaics. Last year we made The Pelican for their courtyard garden, this time the art teacher asked me to design a trumpet, guitar and saxophone to brighten up their music department. It was the…
The fields in the last few weeks have been an abundance of yellow buttercups. I couldn’t do it much justice with my photos but it was much better than this: The skies have been pretty impressive too: No need to look far for inspiration! I made this mosaic indirectly only because I had to work…
I have been invited back again this year to work with Kings Hall School in Taunton. This time they want to make some colourful mosaics for the music department. I have cut out three instruments from mdf with my jigsaw, but you will see the finished mosaics in the next post. As we will use graduations…
Lying on the forest floor looking up at the tops of the trees, the sun shining through fresh green leaves was the inspiration behind this piece. I made several colour drawings using the same design, however I struggled with the green, finding the right shade and how to work it into the design without it looking like a football!…