A Night On The Tiles

 Actually not a night, just a morning. Last Monday our craft group had a visit from the wonderful Fehmi Göhkeş, a local mosaic artist who helped us to make our own mosaic tiles.He had some lovely blue tiles which he had made

He explained we were each going to make a 10cm square tile - beginning with a base of wood, we would use tile adhesive to fix a central smaller square 

tile, then add others around it. 
He had loads of plastic trays of different coloured stones, tiles, chips of glass and shards of seashells.

I chose a central blue tile, and 8 small mosaics to go round it. I filled in the gaps with tiny pebbles in blues, greys, lilacs, and a brown colour. My friends were making similar choices. Everything had to be filled and covered with grouting and taken home to dry, 24 hours later, we could sponge off the excess. Here is my finished tile..

The light makes that bottom tile look white, but it is the same gorgeous iridescent blue as the other three corner tiles. I am delighted with my first attempt.

The creations on Fehmi's website are beautiful. 

Fehmi is Turkish and lives near Norwich with his English wife, also an artist. 

A very happy Monday Morning!

My experience until now has been simple strips of tiles in bathrooms or kitchens - nothing this creative!

Have you ever done any mosaic or tiling ?