FABULOUS MOSAIC ARTIST
We have recently returned from our vacation and stopped ever-so-briefly by my friend Riana’s to drop off some broken pottery for her mosaic work. You can find her on my links page but I took some photos of her place.
It’s almost impossible not to run around snapping picture after picture of her work and I have photos from the last 15 years or more.
I have been deeply privileged to know this native Netherlander since I was 16!
Her garden is an enchanted place which is ever-changing as she works tirelessly and seems to add several new mosaic sculptures each year.
Each one is in a lovely setting with very natural looking plantings around it.
Her imagination is boundless and many of the arches light up at night.
You can see she uses whatever materials she has at hand- bottle caps, buttons, pebbles, marbles and of course, mostly broken pottery from her many potter friends.
Note how she used fired cone packs in this one!!
This was a normal old broken down abandoned farm until she rented it (she now owns it) and she works incredibly hard.
Best of all she offers classes! Please see her website
note that those white things are towel hooks.
Will a yellow/tan grout unite the background and make it just that? The “background”? Or will it make it too strong and break up the shapes of the blues and greens that make up most of the swirls? Stay Tuned to find out!!