Taking Stock

Taking Stock

Apr 15, 2025 | News

Vintage and new Venetian glass, concrete, pigment. 12.8 x 6.9 x 2cm. 2024 / 25. Taking Stock is a series of small-scale glass and concrete artworks made in response to the large stocks of Italian smalti I have accumulated in the studio. Stock taking has required me to...
Field of Vision

Field of Vision

Apr 15, 2025 | Exhibitions, News

Hand pulled glass filati, concrete, pigment.Various dimensions.2024. Field of Vision – a broad-landscape view and what is within our sights. Miniature, organic shaped, wall sculptures appear to cluster and disperse, suggestive of lichens and cellular worlds...
Memento

Memento

Apr 13, 2025 | Exhibitions, News

Memento – to remember, to recall, to occur to the mind.  An exhibition of research into traditional filato micro-mosaic techniques.  Souvenirs remind us of a given time and place, they become treasured objects and embody a personal experience.  They are imbued with...
Colour study: Festival (after Bernat Klein)

Colour study: Festival (after Bernat Klein)

Apr 12, 2025 | News

Vintage and new Venetian glass, concrete, pigment. Diptych 13x30x2.5cm. 2024.  In the diptych Colour study: Festival (after Bernat Klein) Joanna Kessel explores the colour palettes of the renowned Serbian born, Scottish textile designer Bernat Klein. She re-interprets...
Painterly Mosaics

Painterly Mosaics

Mar 11, 2025 | News, Upcoming Workshops

18-21 July 2025 Taught by Dr Helen Bodycomb at Edinburgh Mosaic Workshop  I am delighted to be hosting a 4-day Painterly Mosaics workshop taught by guest Australian mosaicist, Dr Helen Bodycomb. The workshop will focus on learning how to think and make like a painter...