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Hey Kat! I only just saw this now - how did that happen? - thanks so much for this. Our day in Chicago was definitely a highlight for me too :) 

Meeting the mosaicist and writer Helen Miles was, for me, one of the brightest highlights of the summer of 2017. I was delighted to read her most recent blog entry detailing the blustery, adventurous day we had scouting out mosaics all around town, especially on a day like today that reinforced the stubbornness of the seasons. I will proceed to shuffle patiently through the frigid temps until the snow thaws and I can clearly see the ground again, to walk without slipping, and to be inspired to seek out new work upon (and set into) it. Here’s to hoping that will be in some wild, unexplored parts of this beautiful world!

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Latest mosaic for a walled garden in Dumfrieshire. Reverse method on paper.

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Six day Classic and Contemporary Mosaic Course in Pelion, Greece. July 6-13, 2018. Lagou Raxi Hotel. For more information please got to: www.helenmilesmosaics.org/blog/mosaic-course-in-greece. Here’s a flashback to this year’s course.

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In a world full of destruction one must hold fast to whatever fragments of love are left, for sometimes a mosaic can be more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.

Dawn Powell, from The Locusts Have No King (via the-final-sentence)

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New blog post about Marc Chagall’s Four Season’s #mosaic in Chicago. http://helenmilesmosaics.org/blog/chagalls-four-seasons-mosaic/

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Vroom, vroom- driving from Thessaloniki, Greece to Edinburgh, Scotland. It's a looooooong way. Mosaic from cafe in Cortona, Italy.

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Happy Mother’s Day _ l love the hitching up of the skirt. Great Palace Mosaic Museum, Istanbul. 

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A new blog post on the curious mosaics of San Giovanni Evangelista, Ravenna which depict the Fourth, disastrous, Crusade. .http://helenmilesmosaics.org/blog/mosaics-of-san-giovanni-evangelista/ 

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Sixth century floor mosaic from a basilica. Byzantine Museum, Thessaloniki, Greece.

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Completed fireplace. Edinburgh, UK

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Third and final #mosaic panel - done.

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Roman mosaics from Beiteddine Palace, Lebanon.

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Panel number two completed and sealed. Grouting still to go.

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New blog post on contemporary mosaic innovators. 1. Samantha Holmes ‘Unspoken’ 2. CaCO3, Movement No 12 3. Detail from Rachel Sager’s Ruins Project 4. Dugald MacInnes, Xenolith. http://helenmilesmosaics.org/contemporary-mosaics/mosaic-innovators/

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Working on a series of three panels for a London courtyard. 105cm by 105cm. Stone on marine ply. Here’s the first panel complete before grouting. 

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Mosaics by Felice Nittolo, Raffaella Ceccsarossi and Pascale Beauchamp feature in my latest blog post about contemporary mosaics: http://helenmilesmosaics.org/contemporary-mosaics/contemporary-mosaics/

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Come and learn how to make mosaics with me in Greece! 15-22 September, 2017. For more information go to www.lagouraxi.com and press ‘courses.’