People took notice of the work, and Anderson was commissioned to do more. Using a grantUnterstützung, Zuschussgrant from the Arts Council, the friends were able to make lots of mosaics for the garden. Her background in sculpture gave her an understanding of the materials, though. I just picked up things as I went along,” Anderson explained. “When I started, I really didn’t know what I was doing. Inspired by the work of Spanish artist Antoni Gaudí, especially his Park Güell in Barcelona, the two friends thought they would try to translate some of the residentBewohner(in)residents’ paintings into mosaics for the hospital garden. The two women began doing community art workshops at a psychiatric hospital in Birmingham. After working for an art gallery, she and a friend started their own business in the late 1980s. I’m always looking out for bits of pottery with designs that I like.Īmanda studied fine artsbildende Kunstfine arts at Liverpool’s John Moores University, where she specialized in sculpture. Sometimes it’s vintagealtmodisch, klassischvintage pottery and sometimes it’s contemporary.” She sticks the pieces of the mosaic on to plywoodSperrholz, Furnierplatteplywood and then uses black groutMörtel, Fugenkittgrout to make the colours even brighter. “I just buy regular tiles, and I’m always looking out for bits of pottery with designs that I like. “I use a mixture of ceramic tiles and potteryKeramik-pottery pieces I find, and stained glass, because I really like colour,” Anderson told Spotlight. Amanda Anderson uses stained glassBuntglasstained glass and tileFliese, Kacheltiles to make colourful mosaics of birds and other creatures.
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