Mosaics - Art in the Garden
Garden Mosaic (75cm
by 200cm)
I find the idea of art in the garden exciting and my mosaic work evolved from a
combination of art and garden design.
Hard-landscaping is ideal for accentuating and enhancing spaces. Here, an empty red-brick
wall dominates one end of a garden. It is a 'nothing space' and lacks purpose. It
needed to be given form and proportion - to be pulled into the theme for that part of the
garden. The surrounding areas are based around 'waves' created in uprights of blue
timber-work and a range of grasses in a 'sea' of grey Welsh slate.
This glass mosaic takes up the theme of water and waves, and provides a vertical extension
to the horizontal 'sea'. Small mirror mosaic gives the impression of light and
movement in the 'splash-zone', the finished work giving verticality and focus to this end
of the garden.
Sunken
Garden Mosaic (Diameter 180cms)
On a larger scale, the garden is based around a series of circular forms. One of the
features is a sunken garden and this needed a focus. I wanted to keep to the hard
landscaping materials already in use, paviors, slate and pebbles, but tried to use them in
an imaginative way and introduce a splash of colour.
The outer section of this circular mosaic is made from small Scottish pebbles and
represents the inter-linked leaves and flowersbindweed (see left). The central
panel is a coloured glass mosaic of a dragonfly (see right) continuing the natural world
theme. (Diameter 30cms)
