In between arguments and stopping periodically for tea and toast we are working and talking about how to get across what the paintings are about. Matt thinks people will find it hard to see why the paintings aren’t nostalgia for a moment in the early twentieth century when painting was interested in science and colour [...]
I recently completed mosaics for a new park in Sheffield — Devonshire Green. Here are some images that show the process of making the project. A series of large flowerbeds were created, planted for year-round interest in colour and texture. The beds are surrounded by Gaudi-like undulating walls, which also work as benches, so the [...]
Have been working on a mosaic for South London Botanical Institute in Tulse Hill. The SLBI is wonderful, and undeservedly little known. It was set up a hundred years ago, by Allan Octavian Hume — a keen botanist, who wanted to make the study of plants accessible not only to the rich, but also to [...]