Its just over a year since I took Kelly Rae’s amazing “Flying Lessons” e-course on developing your creative business (with a big focus on being an artist online). This post is a reflection on the last year- what I learnt and what I have achieved. Its been a full-on and amazing year for me and […] Read more...
View from a mosaic maker’s bench
Just flying by to show you that I am busily working, nipping away in my south London mosaic workshop, making new art work for forthcoming exhibitions… Read more...
One fabulous launch and an amazing work of the heart
The Hospital Mosaic Project was launched last Thursday – unveiled by internationally renowned mosaic artist, Martin Cheek (photo left) and Philip Holmes (photo right) to reveal a wall of over 100 mosaics by artists from all around the world (including yours truly). Everyone gasped – and rightly so. My mosaic is bottom row, second in […] Read more...
A shiny top tip from a magical mosaic creation…
…one of my favourite creatures, the ever-magical dragonfly. Helped along in its glittery, shiny path by a top mosaic tip that I have used again and again (see below!). Here’s a little one I knocked out as a practice run for a commission for 3 garden dragonflies which I am about to do. Its not […] Read more...
Turning garden slabs into mosaic paving stones.
This is what it was like before…. Here’s how it looks now…. There are more involved ways of creating mosaic garden pavers, involving the reverse method, casts and cement. But for a quick and easy way, just buy cheap garden slabs. Make your mosaic on mesh, sticking the pieces to the mesh using cement adhesive […] Read more...
Together
A new mosaic commission, made for a 40th wedding anniversary, has flown all the way to South Africa to its happy new owners. Together Made of iridescent stained glass, Van Gogh glass, nuggets, crystal beads, vitreous tiles and amethyst beads given to me by the person who commissioned the piece. I think its a bit […] Read more...
A new mosaic with a different kind of ‘grout’
The British Association for Modern Mosaic’s next exhibition is fast approaching with a delicious theme – all things ‘Gothic’. Now…for years I have wanted to experiment with using wooden fretwork as a kind of ‘grout’ and this was my chance – fretwork with the Gothic quatrefoil all over… (the Gothic quatrefoil is an architectural symbol […] Read more...
Do you kiss your work goodbye?
I finished my ‘Circles’ mosaic for the London Hospitals mosaic project – mosaic artists from all round the world producing a 20 x 20 cm mosaic on the theme of circles which will all be mounted together into a public art installation for a busy London hospital waiting area. Can’t wait to see the finished […] Read more...
A peek at some making action!
After the mosaic making frenzy that was the lead up to my solo exhibition in December, Christmas came (and went!) and January became the month of catching up on the neglected piles of life. All of January I continued to run my mosaic classes and I must confess to a slight twinge of jealousy at […] Read more...
So many things to celebrate! And a round up of blog love…
Oh my, I don’t know if my stars are lined up or what but the last couple of weeks have been worthy of some serious looking back and Celebrating! Gosh, I really should do a winter version of my toes! And so…here’s me celebrating… Sold! Great story behind this piece here selling two pieces of […] Read more...