2011 BIRDBATH COMMISSION

Commissioned by a customer who called in on her travels to buy some of my screen printed bird T-shirts and fell in love with my mosaic birdbaths.

The birds were in the centre of a chipped plate in a box of broken china donated by a friend - perfect!

2007 POST BASE

Another failed garden bed and curvaceous brick paving create yet another infill opportunity.

With a busy textile printing business to run, I can only grab small amounts of time to mosaic so I only mix small amounts of mortar at a time and work up the design little by little.

2007 POST FOOTING

What to do when a small garden bed around the base of a post won't grow anything?

This one is directly outside the studio entrance.

2007 CACTUS STONE

A neighbour's son created a cactus garden and I thought a mosaic stone would be the perfect plant for a present - it never dies!

2007 DAVID'S STEPPING STONE

A gift for a friend in the Blue Mountains on the occasion of his 50th birthday.

2006 STEPPING STONES

In 2006, a local family lost their house from an electrical fire. My husband, who is in the Rural Volunteer Fire Brigade, rescued some pieces of a broken bowl as the brigade was helping with the clean up.

I resurrected them in the form of 2 interlocking stepping stones, augmenting the existing pieces with plain colours to highlight the quote from Shakespeare on the original bowl that now appears along the top edge of the top piece in the picture ... 'If music be the food of love, play on.'

Fortunately, one of the angels playing a trumpet and the words were relatively intact so the integrity of the original bowl lives on.

The stepping stones were delivered as a gift of hope to mark the resurrection of the new abode which would eventually rise out of the ashes of the old.

2004 A COMMISSION

This is a panel designed to fit into a bath cabinet, commissioned by neighbours at Wallaby Gully who also have a mudbrick house.

2003 NIC'S BIRDBATH

Birthday present for my friend Nicole.

2003 ENTRANCE STEPS

A girl never learns! Such is the nature of a passion - one forgets the pain of crouching and bending when working at ground level. At least by now I had enlisted the softness of an old pillow.

These steps welcome friends and customers as they enter from the roundabout to walk down to the studio.

2001 THE BIG STEP LEADING DOWN TO THE DAM

The next big project was to mosaic an entire rock step leading down to the jetty on our dam.

This seemed like a great idea at the time but it turned out to be rather a large undertaking. When I expressed my doubt to my husband, Max, as to whether my own Sagrada Familia (Gaudi's unfinished church in Barcelona) would ever be finished, he generously stepped in to help me complete it.

1997 FIREPLACE DETAIL

Whilst building the semi-circular fireplace hearth out of 2nd hand bricks, another opportunity arose for some kind of interesting infill in the small section left at the front.

1997 MY FIRST MOSAIC

In 1997, towards the end of our mudbrick house building venture, our newly hatched bathroom inspired my first mosaic.

Underneath this beautiful coloured glass window (donated by friends who saved it from a roadside rubbish collection in Paddington, Sydney) was a gap that we filled with curvaceous mudbrick shelves.

Here was my chance to create my own innovative Antonio Gaudi-esque solution to a building quandary... mudbrick shelves needing waterproof/washable surface = A MOSAIC!