The fabulous little studio shops that sell mosaic materials were out of this world amazing, I was like a kid in a sweet shop. All sorts of gorgeous glass, milliflori, mirrored glass, textures and colours, I can only describe it as being inside a kalidescope.
I decided to have a go at replicating the infamous ‘The Small Doves Drinking Mosaic’. Lots of other mosaic makers had done it and it seemed a right of passage.
The mosaic technique in Ravenna is very different to the way I work. I cut tiles and create shapes and stick them onto a board and then grout the finished mosaic. The Ravenna way is to cut smalti glass and push it directly into the a cement, no grouting. Two very different ways of working producing very results.