Playing with colour in mosaics

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 …

The secrets of using thinset for mosaics by Julie Sperling

I am delighted to present a guest post (my first) by award winning Canadian mosaicist Julie Sperling about using thinset for mosaics. Julie’s work stands apart in being both fiercely beautiful and intelligently polemical. In her hands mosaics move out of the decorative realm and into a hybrid world where …