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Yesterday I was at St. Josephs Catholic school in Bridgwater completing a mosaic started the day before with the children. It was a memorial mosaic for a much loved learning support assisant , dinner lady and head gardener at the school who died recently. My brief was to design the mosaic using their school logo,…
Nearly there – just the head to do – then grouting and sanding any sharp tiles. Can you guess his name? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki6lNplKrRQ]
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…
You won’t believe the trouble I had trying to find suitable gold foil for the underside of my sun! In the previous post I showed you the transparent smalti laid onto some gold foiled tape. I thought this is the stuff I would use, I have a big reel of it, however it is sticky,…
If you read my post The Enchanter, you will remember I used some beautiful vintage tiles in the work that were given to me by mosaicist, Elaine M Goodwin. They are lovely strong coloured thick glass tiles very similar to Italian piastrina smalti. Elaine told me she had purchased them from the Marble Mosaic Company…
This summer I was asked to make a mosaic for a couple’s Golden Wedding Anniversary to place on a tree in their woodland garden. The brief was “something fairly abstract, with a suggestion of plants and flowing water and using reds, oranges, golds and magenta’s, the size to be about 120m x 50cm” It was…
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Wow, Kate – they all look great – so much to be proud of! I was wondering if you would like to feature as Artist of the Week on my Just Mosaics facebook page – facebook.com/justmosaics.co.uk ? All I would need is a few of your favourite images and contact details emailed to me – there is a slot free in Feb…
Happy new year!
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Hi Felicity, thanks for commenting! Sounds good to me, I’ll be in touch. Happy New Year to you too!
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