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Helen Miles Mosaics

Contemporary mosaics for interior and exterior spaces. Workshops in Greece and Scotland. Commissions welcome.
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Playing with colour in mosaics
Contemporary mosaics, Mosaic Tutorials

Playing with colour in mosaics

November 22, 2020 November 23, 2020 4

Playing with Colour by Joanna Kessel At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic the British Association for Modern Mosaic introduced a series of six online ‘events’ called Prompts from the Pros (PftP). The idea was to encourage mosaic artists to use the strange hiatus induced by lockdown to explore different …

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A brief guide to British mosaics _ a talk
Blog, Mosaics - miscellaneous

A brief guide to British mosaics _ a talk

November 8, 2020 November 16, 2020 0

A brief guide to British Mosaics from the 1850s to the present day You are warmly invited to a free online talk this coming Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at 18:30, GMT. (13:30, EST). I will be presenting ‘A brief guide to British mosaics from the 1850s to the present day’ …

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Mosaic materials, a love story
Blog, Mosaics - miscellaneous

Mosaic materials, a love story

September 17, 2020 September 17, 2020 5

I want to tell you a story about mosaic materials. It is also a story about a couple who are getting married. We all love love stories but of course we love mosaics too so really its a story about mosaic materials and love. Two for the price of one, …

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Signing mosaics – do you or don’t you?
Blog, Mosaics - miscellaneous

Signing mosaics – do you or don’t you?

August 21, 2020 August 21, 2020 6

Signing mosaics _ painters do it so why don’t we? Hello to you and hello to our new uncertain world. I had lots of good intentions, believe me, when the doors closed behind us and the world shrunk to these four walls. My To Do list was a work of …

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Graffiti mosaics and why I (and others) make them
Blog, Contemporary mosaics

Graffiti mosaics and why I (and others) make them

April 25, 2020 April 26, 2020 23

Graffiti mosaics _ the story I started making graffiti mosaics in 2017. I had returned to Edinburgh from Athens the previous summer and needed to rebuild my life from scratch.  Mosaic wise, that is. But really pretty much everything else wise too. My husband was still working in Greece and …

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How to make a mosaic ‘virus’
Blog, Mosaic projects

How to make a mosaic ‘virus’

April 17, 2020 April 17, 2020 7

The British Association for Modern Mosaic has started a new series called ‘Prompts from the Pros‘ to coincide with the period of Covid 19 lock down. The idea is to inspire and challenge mosaic artists and to use the time to go a little off piste, exploring different creative directions. …

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