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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.
My sun and tree mosaic is finished. I had to redo the leaves because I originally made them onto glass that I cut slightly bigger than the leaf parts laid onto it. I did this as a way to make the grout line around the leaves quite thick, however it just resulted in looking clumsy….
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…
I have been thinking about transferring mosaic designs onto fabric for years, longer than the big fashion companies such as Dolce & Gabbana! The trouble is they beat me to it! But seriously I know I will never get as big or famous as they are, (who would want to be that rich and famous??)…
Last weekend I was teaching the glass on glass method and glass on wood at Bristol Creative Glass Guild. My students were all happy with their achievements and you will see why if you visit the page on this blog http://katerattray.wordpress.com/mosaic-workshops/stained-glass-mosaic-workshop They are all beautiful creative pieces, and I especially like Carla’s rendition of the “Guggenheim”….
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,…
Did you know there are over 350,000 species of beetles in the world, and that’s just the ones that have been discovered? According to https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/side_O_0/beetles_01 this compares to “250,000 described species of plants, 12,000 described species of roundworms, and only 4,000 described species of mammals” And it’s not surprising as the beetle species has evolved…