We were in the car again. The temperature outside was nudging 40 degrees. We’d spent the weekend diligently looking around ancient sites (of which more later) with the sun beating down on our heads and peering at bits of old things in museum display cabinets. Now we were heading back to …
Here we all are! Who says you cant make mosaics in a swimming suit? It’s a new trend and thoroughly to be recommended. Alison and I drove from Athens in a car heaving with marble and materials, not entirely sure how many people were going to join us for a weekend of mosaics …
Here we go again – me and my new method. Its not new in any real sense of the word as everyone has been doing it for goodness knows how long, but it’s new to me and I like to flatter myself that it is just a teensiest bit …
This weekend, Alison Scourti and I will be teaching mosaics for the first time at Candili (shown above) on the island of Evvia, Greece. Three families have signed up and two extra adults but I am not sure whether all of them are going to be mosaicing. Given that the …
Achieving naturalness in direct method mosaics I have been having a go at making direct method mosaics onto wood, using cement based adhesive as opposed to glue. The idea is that I want to recreate (at least a fraction of) the higgledy piggledy immediacy of many of my favourite Roman/early Byzantine …
A chance encounter with the Mosaics of Nikopolis, Greece. We were in the car heading up the west coast of Greece to meet friends in Epirus during the Greek Easter break. The journey was long, the roads were atrocious and I had no appetite for sight seeing along the way. …
