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Chorus of the Sun
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…
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The good, the bad and the … beautiful?
You know what it is like when someone has seen your work, then you post a photo of it on the web, and they say “the photo doesn’t do your work justice”. You are sure your photo was a good one so it leaves you feeling very good about your work. That’s great, but what…
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Back In The Real World
I’ve just started a new blog called Back in the Real World. It is my little blog of inspirations – photos, sound recordings and videos – seeds for my work. The first post is a photographic collection of skies. You can see it here Sign up if you like it – I will add new…
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Mosaic Gifts Workshop
I enjoyed teaching students my new course – Mosaic Gifts at Bristol Creative Glass Guild. I taught them how to make glass on glass pieces direct and indirect. They made coasters on mirror – one direct and one indirect, pendants, and a light catcher to hang in the window. This piece I gave them the…
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Cup of Tea and a Pendant Anyone?
It’s two weeks before I teach my course at Bristol Creative Glass Guild. I have taught several glass on glass workshops there, but this one is a new course I have devised. It is called “Mosaic Gifts” and students will have the opportunity to make a small light catcher/panel to hang in a window, one…
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Back in the Woods
I sold my forest mosaics soon after the beginning of the Forest Exhibition at the Opus Mosaic Gallery in Exeter, and thought it would be good to make some more. I walk in woods quite often around Somerset and take photos as I go. I chose some photos to work from, made quick 2 minute…
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Soda Trees and Violins
We all know how refreshing it is to look at kids art. Unrefined, naive, thoughtful and completely original! Sometimes artists try hard to bring that naivety back. Some succeed but others fail, perhaps they have learned too much about techniques and the world in general. Maybe the best way is not to learn the techniques and not…
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Mystic Fred of the Butterflies
As a way to relax and spend some time with my daughter after the Sweat and Tears project we made some butterflies for Eve Lynch’s butterfly project. Eve asked mosaic artists from around the world (through the power of the internet) to contribute butterflies for a nature wall in the Calusa Nature Centre in Florida. They were to…
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Sweat and Tears – part 10 – the finished sculpture
Ok, ok, I said it would be a week! Well it is only Saturday, just in time for a new week tomorrow! The truth is I had finished the sculpture last Tuesday but I have been working on the stand the rest of the week. I found this concrete stand in a reclamation yard and…
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Sweat and Tears – part 9 – decision time!
I spent several hours trying to decide what tile to use for the background of my sculpture. I originally thought I might use transparent glass onto coloured adhesive and the colour would change gradually from a dark brown skin tone to a pale pink. But I scrapped that idea when I thought about how it…
