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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.
Looking at Marc Chagall’s work in more depth led me to question his portrayal of himself and Bella, his first wife. He paints himself with her, sometimes he is flying in the air, often she is flying. It is obvious he is besotted with her, and indeed he speaks of his love for her in…
Yesterday evening just before the sun went down I managed to close shop at Somerset Crafts down on the Avalon Marshes in Somerset in time to see thousands and thousands of starlings swooshing over the gallery and on down to the heath. This happens every year at about this time and we have many visitors…
Details of my new workshops are on my website www.rattraymosaics.co.uk/courses The first of these will be a weekend workshop in May at the Black Swan Arts Centre in Frome, Somerset. The workshop is for beginners or improvers and we will use glass and ceramic mosaic tiles and stained glass. There will be some different tiles…
It’s two weeks before I teach my course at Bristol Creative Glass Guild. I have taught several glass on glass workshops there, but this one is a new course I have devised. It is called “Mosaic Gifts” and students will have the opportunity to make a small light catcher/panel to hang in a window, one…
A Prophetic Tree (part 3) If you read the last 2 posts you will have some insight into the sculpture I am making for an exhibition at Delamore House, Devon in May. In response to the very sad and destructive fungal disease causing ash dieback, I have now finished my “remembrance” sculpture/seat. It retraces the path…
I have been working on some new pieces of art that incorporate my drawings and photos, set in box frames and featuring mosaics of birds, bees and fish as well as eyes and suns. I like the association of the box frame with memories and treasured items. Most of the pieces I have made are…