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My two passions - glass and wax, combined |
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Renewal - Mosaic Tree Stump |
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The De Luci Fish Mosaic Sculpture |
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Created from a photograph of Yarmouth Harbour on a January morning in thick fog, but with a beam of sunlight shining through. 915mm square. Worked mainly in ceramic tiles and china. This mosaic will be shown at my solo exhibition next spring at Quarr Abbey. |
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Made with smalti and shale. 53 cm (21") in diameter |
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Another beautiful bird, this time one that lives by the sea. |
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This is still one of my personal favourites. I quarried the slate from a hole in the ground close to my house in central Victoria, and split it down to paper thin slices. I laid these slices on edge to describe the impossibly fragile twiggy threads of this little wren's nest I found in my garden.
Now the work is... |
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Arte et Labore. Picassiette garden table made for a Blackburn Rovers fan, featuring the club motto and the red rose of Lancashire |
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Inspired by the Peri-Meno-Pause
Stained glass in resin, lotus leaves, lead, grout and shells |
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2 rescue Bully mixes |
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This is an 8x8 inch work in which I challenged myself to use 'one thing'. In this instance a small chipped vase that I had in my stash. Yes, I used every piece that I broke or cut. Some pieces, like the 'wall' on which the vase has broken, were used the wrong way up - showing the inside of the... |
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This 20m2 mosaic commissioned for a new 13 storey building in Sheffield took me about 6 weeks of long days to make. I loved working with the pastel colours which are an expanded palette of the suffragette colours. Working with Professor Julie Gottlieb from Sheffield University to create the timeline etched in brass... |
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One of my frame designs |
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glass |
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Oyster
Inspired by the Pacific Ocean. Memories of childhood of marine foam and shells, in which the singing of the sea is heard.
Wall sculpture Made of marble, smalti and glass. Drops in moonstone and touches of Australian opaline. |
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The idea for ‘Curiosity’ is inspired by Sir Walter Scott’s cabinet of curiosities in the Library of the Abbotsford House on his estate. ‘Curiosity’ was purposely designed and built as a cabinet to incorporate an earlier artwork from 1995 called ‘Intitled’. This piece is made from a glass blown bottle with scorched,... |
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Mosaic worked Direct onto a garden wall depicting Collioure, France |
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