Shell Mirror

This one is still a work in progress. Fashioned from found objects including an old table top, discarded mirror and collected shells from the Atlantic shoreline.

I Love Sagres

A favourite Portuguese beer bottle covered in cut mirror pieces.

Casa Portugues

I love the light, colours and textures of the old towns in southern Portugal - here a building and mosaic on the street in Loule.

And I make mosaics when I am there, like this Casa Portugues caught between symbolic opposites, sun and moon or...? Again it's made with found objects - tiles, a cupboard door and broken mirror.

Flower Mosaic

Another mosaic using discarded materials, this time a less formalised, more abstract design set into the back of what was an Indian thakat cupboard door; the metal rectangle at the bottom is a lock. Lovely bit of wood. I have now discovered a technique using the tile nippers for more reliably cutting longer strips of mirror like the ones here. Not quite sure if I have finished this one yet mind you ...

Mandala Mosaic

Here is a mosaic I rustled up last week from items I found discarded on a rubbish tip - broken tiles, a mirror and an old table top. It's amazing what you can achieve with patience and a pair of tile nippers. The finished product is actually quite difficult to photograph due to the number of mirror pieces!

Below with flowers and leaves (and me!) reflected

and here adding some light in a dark hallway

Steve Glynn's Big Fish

I met mosaic and papier mache artist Steve Glynn at a Brixton Art Exhibition the other week. I really liked his amazing large mosaic fish and am inspired to at least have a go at doing a pilchard of my own! The mirror cutting is especially impressive.

Check out Steve's site here

Garden Mosaic

A mosaic made from a broken mirror, plates and tiles on the wall in my garden, covering a blind window.

The wall is gradually getting populated by other sculptures.
Meanwhile a blackbird has made a nest among the clematis.