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The Butterfly Garden Mosaic, Swinford, County Mayo |
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Pandemic life has many unpredictable twists and turns. It’s hard to imagine, but sometimes being forced to be separated makes people even more determined to do things together. This was the case in April 2020 when a group of Victorians mosaic artists decided they wouldn’t let COVID stop them from making mosaics and... |
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Private commission to celebrate recipient's favourite destinations. Stained, vitreous and fused glass with SMALTI on ply. |
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"ROCKY ROAD" This piece was started in a Rachel Davies zoom class, Unlocking the Potential of your Mosaic Materials -Amazing life changing workshop! I used slate as my substrate, local rocks from my neighborhood, copper wire, copper coated BB's and one Millefiori. This was my first piece done with rocks... |
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BOrocks! |
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The water feature sits in a quartered paradise garden and is fed by octagonal ponds at either end through shallow rills.
The Carrara marble is incised with Venetian handmade glass (smalti). The plain off-white pebble insets provide a frame the feature.
www.olicanamosaics.co.uk |
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Celtic Beard Pullers |
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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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stained glass and crockery |
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Flower Cloud was a commission with a purpose. The client looked out of her kitchen onto a pebble-dashed garage wall, which was a bit bleak, so she commissioned the mosaic so she would look out onto a bright colourful garden in mosaic instead.
Made onto a suitable board, the mosaic is made of bone china dishes,... |
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The Fishpond Mosaic |
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Wall based mosaic using hand-painted ceramic, vitreous glass, ceramic, porcelain. |
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Teaching and advising the art teacher of the School, so that all the children made a piece for the mosaic, be it a flower head, an owl, or butterfly, I was then tasked with 4 days to install all the pieces, and teach the art of grouting to all the volunteers. By far the biggest and most spectacular of my wall mosaics... |
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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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Inspired by Hans Christian Anderson’s fairytale “The Wild Swans”. These Wild Swans mosaics come in different colour ways and are crafted from vintage china. |
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Glencoe |
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glass |
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zoom class with John Sollinger, Rendering Real before Flippin’ Unglued. This is done in a fluid, double reverse method, working face side up, no glue until you flip it, glue it, flip it back. I used thinset as my glue. I am very happy with it and would highly recommend if you get an opportunity to take a class with... |
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