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’ …
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, …
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 …
What are mosaics? Part one of a three part blog on the place of mosaics in contemporary art. PART ONE: WHAT ARE MOSAICS? FIVE THINGS THAT THEY ARE NOT Joan Eardley‘s paintings are urgent; running-to-catch-the-last-bus kind of urgent. They are full of rushed energy, of stops and darts, turns and …
Andamento is the visual flow and direction within a mosaic produced by the placement of rows of tesserae. (From: www.joyofshards.co.uk) Andamento – Time for an Update You might be forgiven for thinking that I am a bit of a traditionalist. ‘Contemporary mosaics inspired by ancient designs’ has a distinctly tweed …
Part II: Books, forums and experiments (For Part I – my guide to online mosaic courses and tips please follow this link: http://helenmilesmosaics.org/mosaics-miscellaneous/online-mosaic-courses/) This post is both a source of information about teaching yourself mosaics and a resounding bell-ringing shout-out. Since I can’t go to the top of a building with a …
