I’ve been thinking a lot about andamento recently, about the lines of tesserae from which all, or almost all, mosaic creativity springs. Straight lines, curved ones, long drawn out tapering ones, lines which twist and writhe, ones laid for emphasis, others to distract attention. Without lines a mosaic is …
Here is a short guide to get you up to speed on mosaic foundations – the hidden layers beneath ancient tessellated pavements. Mosaic foundations: five layers of making. Layer 1: The SURFACE I was standing in the Louvre, hunched over the mosaic of the Judgement of Paris, when a young …
The Garden Mosaic – from start to finish. This mosaic was made using the reverse method on paper and installed over an arch in a walled garden in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The arch leads into an orchard where free-range chickens roam. Jenny Chapman, who jointly owns and runs Kirkennan …
Skin colour in ancient mosaics and why it matters This post is a response to an October 2018 New Yorker article, The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture, written by Margaret Talbot, which discusses the use of colour on ancient Roman and Greek statues. The article argues that academics have …
A retired engineer from Tel Aviv is an unlikely candidate to undertake the reconstruction of a Byzantine mosaic floor in Greece. But with hard work, determination and a generous amount of enthusiasm he transformed a few forgotten mosaic fragments …. ..into a digital representation of a lost masterpiece: Fragments of …
This is a thank you to this year’s participants in my mosaic course in Greece and a notice that my 2019 Traditional and Contemporary Mosaic Course in marble will take place from June 29 to July 5. Fortunately for me but maybe not quite so fortunately for you, the …
