Herring Girl £1,395- 40cm x 35cm, glass and unglazed ceramic tesserae. 'Herring Girl' was created for BAMM North's 'Lost Words' mosaic exhibition opening in February 2019 at RHS Harlow Carr, Harrogate. This mosaic was inspired by the Scottish herring girls who followed the shoals of herring down the coast, and worked long hours bent over a trough full of fish, gutting 50 FISH IN ONE MINUTE and layering them in barrels with salt. I watched this woman on a 1920s Pathe news report, and couldn't actually see what she was doing with her hands, they were just a blur of movement. The herring boats had deep red sails and were so many that they spanned Scarborough's horizon like a line of fire.
'Scarf for my Sister', gold, glass tesserae, mirror glass, glitter glass, stained glass, dichroic glass and black unglazed ceramic tesserae, MDF backing board 60cm x 30cm. My sister sent me a warm winter scarf one year when I lived on the Greek island of Lesvos.
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Old Margaret 'D'- 1920's agricultural worker who lived in Feltham Middlesex. Margaret smoked a pipe, and you can see her ipe tucked into the side of the basket of plums. 120cm x 45cm created for the exterior wall of Belvedere House in Feltham. Glass and unglazed ceramic tesserae, clay pipe taken from the Thames foreshore.
Bird of Prey, 40cm diameter on birch plywood, unglazed ceramic tesserae with background worked in Italian glass tesserae, private commission
Krishna, 30cm x 30cm, unglazed ceramic and glass tesserae, glass beads (earings), gold.
Paving setts created for Bridge House Pond with young people attending the Young & Creative project in Feltham 2017. Each sett is 40cm diameter cast into cement. Mosaic worked in unglazed ceramic and glass tesserae with some glitter glass and glazed ceramic shapes
Footprints, 30cm by 60cm, unglazed ceramic tesserae and marble with found objects from the Thames foreshore including clay pipe, metal, bone, glass and pottery. On exhibition- Awakenings: Ancient Themes, Modern Perspectives Corinium Museum, Cirecester 2016
