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New stop-motion mosaic animation.
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New stop-motion mosaic animation.
This year (2010-2011) again one of my students has won a Topps Tiles award for Achievement in Mosaic. I submitted several mosaics from the Ammerdown course last year, and Rebecca Leggett won with her wonderful piece “Autumnal Birch”. Rebecca has won a cheque for £100 and I have won £300 worth of Topps Tiles vouchers,…
On my monthly trips to Somerset Crafts gallery, I drive the quiet way through the lanes through the Somerset levels. One fresh December morning last year I had to stop as I spotted something quite beautiful through my rear view mirror. A trail of mist was weaving a path across the distant woods. It was…
For the last couple of months I have been working on a commission in the other hours between making new pieces of jewellery, Christmas craft markets, packaging sales online and celebrating. I was asked to make a mosaic for an outdoor wall based on my customer’s family and wife’s families coat of arms. He sent…
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…
My new series of three works is now complete. The first piece – “Before the Dawn” is made with matt ceramic and glass tile (the sun is iridescent black glass tile) and gold leaf smalti. The second and third pieces are stained glass. I am off to my framers now so the pieces will be ready…
There seem to be many ways to spell this Islamic method of making tiles, but perhaps it is correctly spelt zillij. Having researched it a bit more, I was fascinated to find out that once the biscuit fired tiles are cut into shapes , glazed and put together as whole geometric tiles, it doesn’t end there!…
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Kate this so creative and as you stated yourself ‘you like to push the boundaries’, you certainly do. I get inspired by this and can’t wait to see your next innovation.
Kate,you are covering distances in giving motion to pictures.
thank you for sharing.
oz
that is gorgeous!