The school brochure had been re-designed by a very talented local graphic designer, Dan England (great name!). The design was to be a reflection of the new school logo of a newt. A newt because they have many of them living in the school wilderness area.
The site visit revealed that the mosaic footprint I was to follow was 4 metres by 1 metre! Slightly bigger than I had imagined but this was my first mosaic so in for a penny, in for a pound...
My 'studio' was a couple of trestles in a main corridor which turned out to be a brilliant idea as children and the school community could drift by throughout the day, monitoring progress and volunteering suggestions and comments. The children really enjoyed seeing the four plain marine ply boards change into a sparkly, tiled newt. They were horrified when I applied the black grout - it was interesting to watch them want to say 'but you have ruined it all by putting black all over it' but still trying to be polite to an adult!
All the children from Nursery through to Year 2 plus teaching staff all came to put some tiles on the boards - and there was an element of the design changing as we went along. Here are some photos of the Newt's progress...
Literally the bare boards!
All the tiles ready to go...
Mixture of cut ceramic tiles, mirrors and glass tiles.
The children helped with the red and mirror circles.
The original design proposal
Have to admit my heart was in my mouth as the boards were screwed in place!
And then I cried when the last panel went in place - with relief!
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