Mosaic

Emma Biggs

The aim of this class is to teach students to respond to the nature of mosaic materials. Every mosaic material can be used in a wealth of different ways for textural qualities and properties of colour, surface or reflectivity. Wonderful results can be produced from a limited palette by extending the ways the material itself is used. We will be laying the tesserae by the direct method. Every student should expect to complete a mosaic panel. In addition, small panels for experimental work will be provided.

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Emma Biggs

Emma Biggs lives in London, where twenty years ago she established the UK's largest and most successful mosaic studio "Mosaic Workshop". She has a BA in Fine Art from the University of Leeds. Her company has executed mosaics for the Chapel of St Joseph and the Vaughan Chantry in London's Westminster Cathedral. Her recent personal work "Made in England" can be seen in the Potteries Museum in Stoke-on-Trent. She is Senior Tutor in Mosaic at West Dean College, and has taught mosaic at Urban Glass in Brooklyn, USA. She is the author of a number of books on mosaic, including The Encyclopaedia of Mosaic Techniques, and is currently co-writing Mosaic Masterclass: The Advanced Techniques. http://www.emmabiggsmosaic.net/