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4 foot high fibreglass swan sculpture covered with vitreous glass tiles (2013) |
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Pandemic life has many unpredictable twists and turns. It’s hard to imagine, but sometimes being forced to be separated makes people even more determined to do things together. This was the case in April 2020 when a group of Victorians mosaic artists decided they wouldn’t let COVID stop them from making mosaics and... |
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vitreous glass, mirror tile, ceramic objects, broken crockery, gold tile |
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Inspired by Hans Christian Anderson’s fairytale “The Wild Swans”. These Wild Swans mosaics come in different colour ways and are crafted from vintage china. |
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This sign was for a local restaurant in France. Sized at 1m diameter, it was large and great fun to make. It is circular in shape but with cut-out shapes around the leaves to add interest. I used a mixture of unglazed, high-fired ceramic and glass tile to create a contrast between the nut and the background. You can... |
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A wire armature with a rod going through all pieces of miscellaneous ceramics. |
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Bird Bath Workshop with Helen Nock |
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Large Red heart , mirror, acrylic, tempered glass and coral |
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Copyright Dawn Handy 2021
Recycled tesserae |
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Pop art image of actor, writer, producer, director Sylvester Stallone, better known as "Sly". Stallone is the fourth of the Bad Boyz in the series "Not just another pretty face". The contemporary stained glass mosaic has been sculpted on an antiquated and distressed window pane combining the old... |
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Italian dove with a heart of a religious symbol particular to the Puglian region of Italy.
Travertine, glass, marble, found objects and glass. |
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A pic taken at my stall |
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The 100th anniversary of Sister Janet Erskine Stuart’s death in Britain, then Mother Superior of the Sacred Heart Sisters, warranted this mosaic commission and had to reflect the ideas of Baradene College girls. The imagery reflects their views of the nature of education at Baradene, what it means now and how it will... |
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The water feature sits in a quartered paradise garden and is fed by octagonal ponds at either end through shallow rills.
The Carrara marble is incised with Venetian handmade glass (smalti). The plain off-white pebble insets provide a frame the feature.
www.olicanamosaics.co.uk |
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This threshold mosaic in Ilkley is one of the two I created for Bettys and Taylors to mark their centennial.
www.olicanamosaics.co.uk |
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Inspired by the close up flower paintings of Georgia O’Keefe, celebrating the colour and lure of the flower |
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