Mosaics by Kate Rattray

Kate Rattray
Mosaics

Kate works with a range of materials including stained glass, ceramics, pebbles, and mosaic tiles, and designs and installs mosaics for many different applications such as splashbacks, mirrors, floors, walls, patios, paving stones, sculptures and seating. Commissions are welcome from private individuals, corporate and small businesses and for organisations to decorate home, garden, office, hotel, restaurant etc.

Kate exhibits her work regularly with BAMM (British Association of Modern Mosaics) and in Somerset where she lives. She is a full member of the Somerset Guild of Craftsmen and exhibits her work at their gallery in Somerton, Somerset. The mosaics in this website are a selection of work since the start of her career thirteen years ago, some of which are for sale and some which have been commissioned. Contact Kate if you would like to discuss a commission or purchase a piece of work.

ARTISTS STATEMENT

At art college and for a few years after I made and exhibited surrealist photomontages. I was attracted to mosaic when I was given the opportunity to make one with school children on an outside wall. I love the nature of mosaic - the tactility, the vibrancy and the reflectiveness of materials. I love the physical challenge of mixing concrete and building structures. I like to use reflective materials such as mirror and gold and silver - the material adds another dimension to the work, an ethereal quality.I use smalti glass, for its depth of colour and vibrant nature. My recent work is about stories that are akin to ancient myths,come about from a mixture of day dreaming and being inspired by nature. I choose the colours and textures of materials carefully in order to interpret natural states such as wind and heat. I like to find exciting new ways to arrange colour and to prepare and set materials. Much of my two dimensional work is made indirectly (the mosaic pieces are stuck onto paper upside down and back to front, then the adhesive is poured into a frame onto the back of the mosaic. When it is dry, the paper is soaked off) This gives the work a flat surface, which I find is aesthetically pleasing and easier to look at.