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Mary Mary Quite Contrary Bird Baths
The last few weeks I have been making bird baths for the Bishops Palace English Country Garden Festival in Wells this weekend. Today was the first day but you still have a chance to come along tomorrow or Sunday! I thought how nice it would be to make some work based on a garden theme…
A Starling Called Ella
Listening to the radio today it came to my attention that it is Ella Fitzgerald’s centenary ! In a couple of weeks on 25 April she would have been 100 years old if she was still alive! Known as the Queen of Jazz, her version of Gershwin’s song “Summertime” has to be one of my favourite…
- bird mosaics | mosaic art | sunrise | videos
How The Sky Becomes Blue
I have posted the animation again this time from vimeo because it fills the screen and I think this looks better! [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/20099871 w=400&h=300] I made the soundtrack by mixing 2 tracks of birdsong that I recorded with my daughters ipod with a drumbeat from a keyboard. All very low-tech!
bird mosaics | mosaic art | Odyssey | windThe Four Winds
This was my third piece for the Mosaic Odysseys festival. I love the story of the four winds in Homer’s Odyssey. Aeolus, keeper of the winds gave Odysseus a bag of wind bound up with silver thread to help him on his journey. He stored it safely on the ship and at first it was…
Sweat and Tears – part 10 – the finished sculpture
Ok, ok, I said it would be a week! Well it is only Saturday, just in time for a new week tomorrow! The truth is I had finished the sculpture last Tuesday but I have been working on the stand the rest of the week. I found this concrete stand in a reclamation yard and…
What’s in a name?
I find that choosing a suitable name for my mosaic artworks is just as important as the piece itself. It makes the story whole. The process I use for this choice often starts with a working title, first thought of at the same time as the first sketch. When the mosaic is complete (or during…