emmacavellart
Oxford
Ongoing - Mixed Media Mosaic Courses, PlayShops, Spring and Summer Schools.
Welcome!
Come and have fun exploring the joy and wonder of our innate creative gifts
through the process of making mixed media mosaics together.
My intention is to support and encourage you in exploring your true creative
potentiality through the wonderful process of making mosaics 'Peace by Piece'
Sharing the deeply restorative process of gently reawakening creativity through
brokenness.
I look forward to welcoming you.
Thank you for your interest.
Emma's Background
Feeling deep appreciation for my early life, growing up in a super abundant
garden, bursting with wondrous flowers and bountiful blossoms. Learning from a
young age how to meet with nature in her fullness of spirit.
Family life was coloured with complexity, tragedy and challenge. I found great
solace within the wholeness of garden space, which heightened my awareness of
our deeply interconnected, cyclical nature.
Our bohemian home was full of floral interiors, antiques, un-conventional
ornaments and myriad curiosities. Many of which continue to inspire and adorn
my mosaic art today.
In my early twenties I began exploring the process of making sculptural ceramics
for many years at a local art school. During that time I was invited to join a
weekend course making mosaics.
I loved the idea of working in instant colour and form. I meandered with mosaic
process and fell in love!
I later became artist in residence at a local historical house and spiritual
centre, which offered courses, retreats and B&B. People visited from all over
the country and around the world, which enabled me to meet and explore with many
colourful seekers. My studio was the ground floor of a small 17th Century
listed cottage in the grounds of the center. The cottage looked out onto a
wonderful walled garden, which I helped to care for, harvesting inspiration for
my art.
Inspiration
I appreciate the beauty and generosity of our natural world. Offering an
authentic, curative ground of endless wonderment and creativity. My garden is a
great source of delight and inspiration. Teeming with every colour and tone,
heartening aromas and kindred vibrations.
I’m passionate about vintage china. I love how it offers endless possibility of
pattern, hue, myriad tender tones and expressive textures. Inspiring a deep
sense of memory and creative potentiality within. The fragments have a fine
body and reliable quality, which allows for clean, strong cuts. I find this
material very pleasing to create with.
The whole process of making mosaics is a miraculous quest of gathering together
diverse materials, from house clearances to charity & curiosity shops, enabling
an endless enchanted flow of abundant potentiality and great fun! I’m always in
deepest appreciation for unique donated gifts of broken antiques, vintage
wonders, figurines, vases and re-claimed stained glass.
Technique
My studio is abounding with many colour-coded palettes, brimming with vintage
china treasures, enabling me to be in spontaneous mosaic flow with ease of
application.
I spend quiet time, musing with mosaic movement. Creating space for day
dreaming, wondering and glimpsing potentiality.
I appreciate my precious tools. Various hand cutters and nippers of many shapes
and sizes. Remarkable, reliable, dear old friends.
As I begin making mosaics I often just sit and start loosely nipping and
cutting. Feeling into and aligning myself with little sparks of inspiration.
Gently shaping each piece, miracles begin transpiring through mosaic
metamorphosis.
I use various cement-based adhesives and PVA glues for fixing the fragments to
the different surfaces.
I often use natural pigments to colour the final grout application, which
creates depth and helps to unify the whole piece.
Goal
My intention is to encourage harmony to emerge from diverse and discarded
materials. Sharing the deeply restorative process of gently reawakening
creativity through brokenness.
‘Peace by Piece’ facilitating harmony & beauty.
Sharing the joy and wonder of our innate creativity through making memorable
mosaics - 'Peace by Piece'
Ongoing mixed media mosaic courses, playshops , Spring and Summer schools.
Thank you for your interest.
In kindness and blessing,
Emma
