Avellana Crafts

I recently delivered more mosaics, kits and button necklaces to this lovely craft shop in Mevagissey. It was badly affected by the floods at the end of last year so it was good to see that the shop was back better than ever thanks to a lot of hard work by Hazel and her daughter Fran. The new display cabinets looked great and the stock was the usual mix of wonderful locally made items.

Godolphin House, Helston

Here's Shirley from the Cornish Magpie setting up her stall at the Godolphin House Food and Craft Fair which is run by the National Trust. Her company represents a wonderful mix of Cornish-made and designed items from textiles, prints, ceramics, foodstuffs (yummy fudge!) and, of course, Artichoke Mosaics. Shirley is holding one of my large birdhouses - vibrant coloured vintage china contrasted against a black grout.

Craftpoint Pop-Up Shop, Truro

Here I am with one of my mosaic mirrors at the pop-up shop which is being held over Easter and Spring Bank in the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro. The shop has been organised by Carole Lomas. She's the founder of Craftpoint which showcases the work of designer makers based in Cornwall. There's a wonderful mix of interior products and gift items for sale and I think that the Craftpoint pop-up shops are a great idea.

Treasures of the Towans

Good news! Just found out that my mosaic 'Treasures of the Towans' has been chosen by the Cornwall Wildlife Trust to be part of their 'Wild and Inspired' exhibition which will be touring venues throughout the county. Over 200 entries were submitted but the Trust had to reduce the number of artwork to just thirty, all of which will be on sale and hopefully raise funds for CWT. My mosaic represents the wildlife habitat as well as the geology and history of Gwithian Towans and I used gems, gold dust and quadra tesserae, unglazed porcelain, stained and tempered glass, sea-shells and acrylic paint.

Krowji

The Artichoke Mosaics studio is based in a wonderful old building in Redruth which was originally the town's Grammar School but is now home to Cornwall's largest group of artists and designer makers. See http://www.krowji.org.uk/