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A Starling Called Ella
Listening to the radio today it came to my attention that it is Ella Fitzgerald’s centenary ! In a couple of weeks on 25 April she would have been 100 years old if she was still alive! Known as the Queen of Jazz, her version of Gershwin’s song “Summertime” has to be one of my favourite…
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Let There Be Light (and Water)!
Pool of Dreams I wanted to make a bird bath loosely based on The Whirlwind That Takes Me There only using a different colour palette. Like my Pretty Maids and cockle shell bird baths, I made this one by hand forming the base using wire, glass fibre mesh (I recycle the mesh sheets that mosaic…
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New Designs – It’s not what it seems!
I have various different projects on the go at the moment…a large commission, bird baths for the Bishops Palace garden festival in June and some new work for an exhibition at Glastonbury Abbey in September. All exciting stuff that is keeping my left and right brain buzzing and pinging. During the in-between times I like…
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Kingfishers
In the valley below the hill where I live there is a small village with a leat running along the edge of the fields and opposite a row of old and pretty cottages. There are often ducks on the leat and once I saw a very raggedy looking heron trying to catch a fish, but…
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A Union of Family Arms
For the last couple of months I have been working on a commission in the other hours between making new pieces of jewellery, Christmas craft markets, packaging sales online and celebrating. I was asked to make a mosaic for an outdoor wall based on my customer’s family and wife’s families coat of arms. He sent…
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Return of the doves
My doves have returned from their Greek Odyssey to Athens and Mykonos and are home to roost. However they are looking for a good home as I don’t have much room here for them. You can see lots of photos of them and purchase them in my shop 🙂 Save Save
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Starlings – are here again!
I’m on starlings again! During the two weeks of Somerset Art Weeks I set up a temporary studio at the Somerset Crafts gallery. Whilst I was there I made 8 starlings. I wondered how long it would be before the starlings returned from Scandinavia, Germany or the Netherlands (according to the BBC nature website the…
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Mosaic Odysseys Festival – from London to Athens to Mykonos
Two weeks ago I returned from Athens from the Mosaic Odysseys exhibition which has now moved onto Mykonos. Being in Greece was an inspiring experience, I climbed the Acropolis and Lykavittos Hill and even though there were crowds of people around me, I still felt a connection with the ancient Greeks and I was in…
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The Doves Who Bring Ambrosia to the Gods
Mosaic Odysseys Festival moving on to Athens and Mykonos The first exhibition for the Mosaic Odysseys Festival at the Hellenic Centre in London was a great success. We had a lot of visitors and several sales. After selling my works “The Whirlwind That Takes Me There” , “The Enchanter“,and “The Four Winds“, I decided to…
