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Mosaic Mix Weekend
I will be running a mosaic mix weekend at the Corsley Centre , Warminster, Wiltshire, on February 6th and 7th 2010. The aim of the course will be to use many different materials to create a series of small textural mosaics , (or one bigger one if preferred). It will be a great chance to experiment…
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New Year Sunrise Video
Here is my video of the New Years Sunrise – with added avian content! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RQnIoA6i58] Time lapse animation using 40 photos. It is an unrefined “sketchbook” video!
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Didn’t get far building a sledge yesterday, but walked across the fields with the kids to the village. The snow is blowing across the fields like a sand storm. It is so fine, not like the wet slushy stuff we usually have. On the steepest hill just above the village there are quite a few…
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Snowbound
I had a manic morning finishing a model for a commission entry. Then taking the photos , printing them and putting together the statement, and cv. It is a crafts council competition , the commission is to make a work for a UK official VIP gift at the Shanghai exposition. The entry needs to be…
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New Years Day 2010
It was a beautiful day today. Cold and sunny. I took my family to Westhay nature reserve. It is an area on the Somerset Levels beside lakes and rhynes (pronounced “reens”) where you can walk and watch different water birds coming and going and being. From a distance, we saw geese, swans, coots and cormorants….
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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…
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Christmas Shopping and Serendipidy
I was doing some Christmas shopping yesterday in Exeter, and trying to find a cd for my son. On scanning the aisles, from quite a distance my eye caught onto this cd ( you may have heard that the eye seeks faces in all kinds of surface, but in the eye of a mosaic artist one only seeks…
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More on zellige, zillige, zellij or zillij
There seem to be many ways to spell this Islamic method of making tiles, but perhaps it is correctly spelt zillij. Having researched it a bit more, I was fascinated to find out that once the biscuit fired tiles are cut into shapes , glazed and put together as whole geometric tiles, it doesn’t end there!…
