Mosaics

Mosaics

I first got interested in mosaics on a field trip with students to the Roman Museum of Verulamium (St. Albans). Dr. Anne Saunders (London Geographical Society) encouraged me to pursue my mania, and so I took two courses on the making of mosaics with Vanessa Benson at the Hampstead School of Art (in 1997). After I got back home, my friend Donna Danielewski, miracle worker that she is, helped me find a source of marble through Em's husband Vince (thanks, Vince!).

One of the largest collection of ancient mosaics in North America (let's take their word for it) is housed just an hour from me in The Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Massachussetts--a fact I discovered purely by accident. Two of the most beautiful of these are...

The Drinking Contest of Dionysos and Heracles, laid about A.D. 100 in Antioch.

Hunting Scene, Early 6th Century A.D.

To see more, connect to one of the best mosaic sites on the web: Mosaic Matters.

See also the Italian site MosaicWorld.

My first mosaic, a copy of a motif from St. Albans.

A copy--in progress on the left and finished to the right--of a Roman Mosaic in the Burrell Collection (Burley Collection, Al?) in Glasgow.

A teacup

A geometric pattern based on a Roman mosaic.

An allegorical representation of Apolausis, the Goddess of Enjoyment, inspired by a mosaic from ancient Antioch.

A table top (in marble, smalti, and ceramic tile)