{"id":2879,"date":"2013-04-22T21:45:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T20:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2013-04-22T21:45:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T20:45:16","slug":"mosaic-in-the-bloggy-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/mosaic-in-the-bloggy-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosaic in the bloggy silence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello friends<\/p>\n

an unusually long blog gap for me – Easter holidays combined with a stream of wonderful visitors and house guests meant that blogging was put to one side.<\/p>\n

But in the midst of it, there has been a surprising amount of mosaic making considering the hectic, go-with-the-flow nature of the last few weeks! When I don’t have stretches of time free to mosaic, I am trying to do a little here and a little there instead and it has been happily adding up in the last few weeks…<\/p>\n

This little bird is now finished and is winging its way to the Opus Mosaic Exhibition <\/a>this week. Any of you near the Exeter area will be in for a treat if you visit the exhibition. It is open 6th May – 29th June.<\/p>\n

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The bird is good for outdoors – I had fun sculpting it with concrete and wanted it to be ‘naive’ looking – like an innocent, slightly dishevelled baby bird…<\/p>\n

A new commission is also now finished and has been delivered to happy owners. The mosaic “Oran’s Star<\/em>” has a beautiful and sad story behind it and I will dedicate a whole post to it soon.<\/p>\n

I realised recently that I sometimes feel a little bereft in my mosaic life because, due to time limitations, making my own mosaics often gets put aside. So I decided to do something about it. I have had this vision in my head of a large angel mosaic to go above the fireplace in our kitchen diner.<\/p>\n

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And so…an angel is being born…it’s going to be a long gestation for sure.<\/p>\n

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Today I finished painting part of the background (it will be an ungrouted mosaic so I want the silver to show through) and I have been playing with the colour palate.<\/p>\n

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I adore these irridescent tiles – they have so many different hues and colours when you move past them…<\/p>\n

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Lastly, work continues on 12 more of these mosaics – for a regional firm of solicitors.<\/p>\n

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They were so impressed with the first one that they want the rest made for the outdoors so they adorn the entrance to each office – what a lovely compliment! I am still collecting votes for this mosaic to be in a chance to win a Topps Tiles competition so if you would spare 15 seconds and one click to vote fore me, I would be so grateful. Click here to vote<\/a><\/strong> – THANK YOU!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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