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Together We Grow
As I watched the sun go down over the hill one evening, it shone directly through the middle of a tree in the distance. It seemed as if it had burnt a hole right through the tree and the leaves around it gradually changed colour from orange to green. The photo I took didn’t reveal…
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Disappearing Sun
I have wanted to make this piece for sometime now, and finally I have got round to it. It is a development of a mosaic I made in 2011 called “Gathering Darkness“. It is one of my favourite pieces and despite several of my customers asking if they could buy it, I have found I…
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Blow Your Trumpet King’s Hall!
I was delighted to be asked back to King’s Hall school in Taunton this year to help them make some more mosaics. Last year we made The Pelican for their courtyard garden, this time the art teacher asked me to design a trumpet, guitar and saxophone to brighten up their music department. It was the…
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Path to the Sky
The fields in the last few weeks have been an abundance of yellow buttercups. I couldn’t do it much justice with my photos but it was much better than this: The skies have been pretty impressive too: No need to look far for inspiration! I made this mosaic indirectly only because I had to work…
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Where the Earth Meets the Sky
I have been invited back again this year to work with Kings Hall School in Taunton. This time they want to make some colourful mosaics for the music department. I have cut out three instruments from mdf with my jigsaw, but you will see the finished mosaics in the next post. As we will use graduations…
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Where the Leaves Meet
Lying on the forest floor looking up at the tops of the trees, the sun shining through fresh green leaves was the inspiration behind this piece. I made several colour drawings using the same design, however I struggled with the green, finding the right shade and how to work it into the design without it looking like a football!…
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Summer Mosaic Courses
I have been running courses at Somerset Crafts for the past few months. This month students made a paving stone and a panel for outdoors. The courses take place either in the polytunnel, outside or in the gallery. I start the courses by discussing my work with students to offer an insight into some of the…
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Voices of the Wind Exhibition
It is 14 days into my exhibition “Voices of the Wind” at Somerset Crafts so I thought it would be a good time to share some photos of it with you. Apart from my four new pieces (in previous posts), I have selected some of my past work dating back to 2006 that fits in well…
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The Last Tree at Delamore
As luck would have it I got a message from a friend from Somerset Crafts who saw my post on facebook asking if anyone could recommend a courier for my 150kg sculpture. He is a stone sculptor so he has a heavy duty trolley and used to lifting heavy lumps of stone. Not only that…
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Birds in the Rain
Another piece for my solo exhibition “Voices of the Wind” at Somerset Crafts to accompany The Storm. It is quite a small piece (A4) made with stained glass, float glass over painted board and mirror glass. Here are 2 shots of it in different light (I feel an animation coming on!) As well as the…
