Hello. My name is Dianne.

 

Welcome to my site. Please enjoy browsing through my work at your leisure. I hope you will find some small inspiration here which will  perchance stimulate you to try out this art form yourself. I started my involvement in mosaics about 6 years ago. I wanted something to do as a hobby, something that would be creative as well as distinctively my own art expression.

 

I began making flower pots with ceramic tiles, then I met a good friend, Elizabeth. She has some very beautiful works of art which she composed herself. Through her encouragement I decided to try my hand at mosaic pictures.

 

Now I was not an artistic type of person who could draw what I envisaged in my mind, so in looking for suitable images which might not be too challenging for a fledgling mosaicist, I found my first images in books and magazines which I then rather mischievously converted to a mosaic. Hence my mosaic mischief, as most of these images were rather small and some had to be enlarged some 40 times from the original.

 

Nevertheless, the mosaic art work I completed is definitely my own and I am proud of my work  I am now attempting to design all my own works rather than using images from books and other sources. My friend is quite computer literate and uses his skills in developing methods of transferring images to the work platform, makes all my frames and necessary woodwork.  He designed this web site and maintains it for me.

 

Mosaic images can be as varied as your imagination allows. Many are the places which you can enhance with your mosaic art. Many artists are generous with access to their images and encourage you to use their work. You will soon find that you have your own style and you will add to the work reflections of your personality imbuing the work with another voice as it were.

 

There are two ways of doing things in our world. One is to begin with something and pull it apart to see what makes it what it is, the other is to visualise an image and then construct it from a thing which has been pulled apart. Mosaics uses both of these methods. There is nothing new under the sun.The creative process lies in visualising and bringing together elements in a new way.