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I was teaching the glass on glass technique again this weekend at Bristol Creative Glass Guild. I had 7 fabulous creative students. Here are their wonderful pieces of art lit up by that beautiful bright blue sky.
Yesterday it was my son’s 13th birthday. I bought him this “space invaders” wallett. (He is almost too young to remember space invaders, and for anyone reading this who is also too young – it was designed and programmed by Toshira Nishikado for Taito, Japan in 1978 as an arcade game) It seemed pretty cool to find this…
I made the “Forest Light” mosaic (see last post) pretty quickly, so I decided to make another small woodland mosaic. This time I wanted to introduce a sense of depth. This is “Morning haze in the Woods”. It took me 6 hours, which is quick for a mosaic! Just like “Forest Light” I have used…
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…
I have several pieces of work on display at the Somerset Guild of Craftsmen, Courthouse Gallery, Somerton, Somerset, UK for Somerset Art Weeks which runs from 19 September – 4 October 2009. They include a series of nine mosaics: “How the Sun Wakes Up in the Morning” (see my website), “Cygnus”, and various others. This is…
I’ve been working on a final set of mosaics which will bring an end to a “concept album” of work. There are over 40 mosaics in my album (some of which you can see on my website) and they will soon be produced in a book I hope to publish through “Blurb” before Christmas. The…
A few weeks ago I was contacted by a gallery in Devon, and asked if I had any work I would like to display in their gallery. It is a new craft gallery at the Dartington Cider Press Centre, in Devon, which houses several designer shops and cafes but it is best known for its…