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Perdido Key Mouse |
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Critically endangered, this beautiful gamebird has a striking blue/white frontal casque and is threatened by land clearance for crops, logging, mining plus oil/gas drilling. The Sira Curassow grows to nearly 1 metre in length and lives in the Amazonas and central Peru.
55 x 43 cm
Stained glass, ceramic, glass... |
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This is a sample piece made for my current project. I'm working on a Per Cent for Art project in a local school, making a mosaic based on native Irish trees. 2020 |
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Armistice Poppy - a tribute to all who gave their lives during WW1 |
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Beach Love Mixed Media Heart |
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This beach shelter was always littered and an ugly mess. Since the mosaic went up, it is now used and enjoyed by beach visitors with respect. |
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A piece inspired by the teaching of Lawrence Payne. The tesserae are very small, Cinca and lightweight, so glued directly only a round artist canvas. All very experimental, but it worked. Such a lot to learn about Roman mosaic techniques and rule, but am enjoying immersing myself in the history of it all. |
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2 rescue Bully mixes |
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'Between Heaven and Earth' is a site-specific sculpture made especially for the Constellations 2022 exhibition in Chester Cathedral. The insides of the two nineteenth century, handmade chimney pots from Glasgow are wrapped with mirror mosaics based on the nineteenth century mosaic murals in Chester Cathedral... |
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A specialty of mine is the Greek Myth Series of which Medusa is the 3rd. It was created in 2023 and for each one I accompany 10 partial progress shots with elements of the myth story in the caption text on both instagram and facebook. These are a lot of fun to create and are very popular, especially on instagram, for... |
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Mosaic portrait of a goldfinch with white spring blossom with pale green background. Made with smalti and shells. |
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I started the "Portrasaic" brand in order to concentrate on Animal, Pet and Human portraiture. Merlin was one of the earlier Animal/pet portraits and was created after a series of pet dog portraits.
Size: 60x40cm |
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An Antique stoneware hot water bottle as a base covered with cut ceramics. The head being the top of a salt glazed German flagon . |
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I really like trying to get shading in with the tesserae. |
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Sculpture
commission for Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health NHS
Foundation Trust. Funded by Arts Council England and Artscape. Vitreous
glass mosaic applied to six stainless steel waves that undulate down a
gentle slope. The piece was inspired by Walt Whitman’s poem: ‘As I Ebb’d
with the Ocean of... |
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