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Who’s a Pretty Bird Then? Budgies, gotta love them haven’t you? I don’t agree with keeping birds in cages as pets, they should be free to fly in their own environments. However I am sure a lot of us will know someone who keeps these beautiful colourful parakeets in their homes, or have memories of…
Photomontage and mosaic
My final year at college (1989) I finally settled into making photomontage , and in those days without the use of a computer programme. I would cut up pictures from magazines, take photos of scenes and people and arrange the pieces, then take a final photo which I would then process in black and white….
Diversity of Stained Glass
This Saturday I am running a stained glass mosaic workshop at the Creative Glass Guild in Bristol by request of the guild. They stock a huge range of glass, and I am almost wishing I was attending the class instead of running it to get my hands on all that glass! We will be making…
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An Egg for The Egg
I was asked by my sponsors of my Zillion lion (Zenith International) made in 2010, if I would decorate an egg for the Bath Egg Hunt. It is to celebrate The Egg Theatre’s 10th Anniversary. This isn’t paid work but it is small (about 12 inches high) and gives me a chance to experiment and…
Mosaic Art and Friends in Chartres!
I have just returned from a long weekend in the beautiful city of Chartres, and a day in Paris. My two teenage children accompanied me (luckily, or I would have got lost many times!) and we enjoyed an overload of mosaic art, architecture and history! We stayed in an apartment overlooking the side of the…
New Years Morning 2010
I was up at dawn to watch the sunrise this morning. I tramped over the field to get some photos. The moon was full. It was very cold, the ground was crunchy with frost. The sky had a muted pink glow and it was gradually brightening. My fingers were numb (wearing my newly acquired fingerless…
