bird mosaics | mosaic art

Winter Greetings!

Bykaterattray December 22, 2009

……. and Best Wishes for 2010!

bird mosaics | mosaic art | skies | sunrise | sunsets

The Storm
Bykaterattray October 16, 2012

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…

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animals | lions | mosaic art | sculpture | videos | Zillion videos

My Lion – progress report 6
Bykaterattray April 11, 2010

Easter with the Lion. It was a nice day so we thought we would put the lion out to pasture. My daughter wanted to feed the lion a chocolate egg ……… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy7xynuAznE]

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mosaic art | mosaic glass tiles

Marble Mosaic Company and Ansar Mosaic
Bykaterattray August 1, 2016March 6, 2021

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…

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bird mosaics | city | leaf mosaics | mosaic art | opus sectile | skies | stained glass | stop-motion animation | sun mosaics | sunrise | sunsets | trees

The Day I Blew Up My Hard-Drive!
Bykaterattray December 4, 2012

As I was in such a rush to release the news about my book, “Passage to the Sun“, I forgot to tell you a bit about it. I’ve been working on it on and off for a couple of years. I wanted to show my journey, not just how my work has developed since 2005,…

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mosaic art | Olympic Sculpture | Olympics

Sweat and Tears – part 2
Bykaterattray June 21, 2011

The next stage of the Olympic sculpture was to organise and order tiles. I want the sweat and the tears to look as if they are on skin, so the tiles I choose are very like water glass tiles – they have a coloured base with thick clear glass on the top, and represent the…

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mosaic art

Kate Rattray — The Face Behind the Mosaic
Bykaterattray January 4, 2020February 4, 2021

I was interviewed by Ian Laurie for his blog on mosaic artists … this is the interview … For this seventh and final interview of 2019, I talk with Kate Rattray. Kate manages to combine her unique style with imagination, humour and a shedload of both vocational and research skills to great effect. Based in…

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