Mosaic Matters - The online magazine for all things mosaic

SPECIAL ITEM

The Gilbert Collection

Probably one of the most important gifts that has been given to this country, the Gilbert Collection comprises some 800 objects and, in each of the three fields it encompasses, is considered to be among the most distinguished in the world. The collection of mosaics is the most comprehensive ever formed, with Roman and Florentine examples dating from the 16th to the 19th century

FEATURE

BUDD MOSAICS – The Public Art Mosaics of Kenneth & Oliver Budd

Those of us who were riveted by Brian Bull’s autobiographical Mosaics: the secrets, tools and techniques (Triton Books 1976) will welcome this book likewise. Brian Bull and Kenneth Budd were complete masters of their art, which was first and foremost the art of making large public mosaics.....

The Treatment Rooms House

The ‘Treatment Rooms’ is a privately owned house in west London currently having its exterior walls transformed by a collective of artists.......

The Esther Benjamin Trust

A moving story about how the loss of a wife helped set up a trust to aid exploited children in Nepal and how mosaics has acted as a form of therapy helping them to earn a wage for themselves. Please read....