Lorna Ball fine art mosaics
I call it ‘painting with stained glass’. I like to try to mimic some of the greats like Emily Carr and Tom Thompson. I am a self taught Artist. Many years ago, I was admiring a landscape mosaic made of tinted grains. I was blown away at the detail and intricacy. A few years after that, I found myself working with stained glass. I had a lot of scraps leftover and decided to try making some mosaics. One day I was looking at Van Gogh’s Starry Night and thought that his paint strokes looked a lot like the glass cuttings I had on my work table. I reproduced it as a stained glass mosaic. Then I noticed that Emily Carr’s brush strokes could also be transformed into a mosaic. As I was reproducing the ‘Masters’ I was learning about art! Now I create My own masterpieces