Royal Brompton Hospital – mosaic commission

Having completed two sets of workshops at the Royal Brompton Hospital in June, I trotted off to London this week to pick up the final completed mosaics and to present the final designs to rb&h Arts.

For the workshops, I spent two days working with patients, visitors, staff and passers-by to develop designs and ideas for the final artwork and then two days making mosaics, using a leaf shape as a basic template.  During the workshops we made over 70 mosaic leaves which will all be incorporated into the final artwork.

I also created 50 mosaic ‘packs’ for people to take away and use or for people that couldn’t make it down to the workshops.  These consisted of a bag of mosaics, a leaf template on brown paper,  a pot of PVA, a glue brush and a set of mosaic instructions.  The packs proved really popular and they were all used which was fantastic!

I’ve created a design based on the same leaf template but at a much larger scale.  Each ‘leaf’ incorporates the mosaics created during the workshops and these leaves will be displayed around the courtyard.  I’ve used every single one of the mosaics made which at the last count was 93 individual pieces.

Next job – reverse the mosaics made during the workshops as these were made using the double indirect method.  I’ll use the indirect method to make the larger pieces.

I also delivered some of my leaf prints to the hospital as they are being used for a small exhibition in the foyer there alongside promoting the mosaic project.

Images © rb&hArts at Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust