Taking Stock
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
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 – 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)
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
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...
Elements of Place – Formed by Fire
Co-tutored by Andrea Spencer and Joanna Kessel, 5 – 9 May 2025, Benefield Spencer Glass, Ballintoy, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. “Elements of Place – Formed by Fire is a five day flameworking and micro-mosaic workshop aimed at practicing glass and mosaic...
Book Review: Mosaics Inspired by Nature
Mosaics Inspired by Nature: Creating Contemporary Art By Rachel Davies Rachel recently asked me to read and review her book Mosaics Inspired by Nature. As chance had it I was able to do this whilst I was staying in a small wooded village on the edge of the Cairngorm...
Studio sale of mosaic materials
I’m having a studio sale of mosaic materials. A studio spring clean and sale of stocks of mosaic materials and equipment that I currently rarely use.
Research Exhibition
24 February – 2 March 2023 | 10-4pm daily. Mote102 Gallery, Ferry Road, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland. The exhibition focuses on the research undertaken over the past year supported by the Inches Carr Creative Development Award 2022. The award enabled me to study with...
15 minutes with…
Thursday 26 January | 4pm. Join me in conversation with Rachel Davies, Chair of the British Association for Modern Mosaic, as part of her live Instagram sessions “15 minutes with…”. We’ll be discussing my recent research into filato micro-mosaics as part of the...
Playing with Colour
Playing with Colour has been designed as a Prompt from the Pros for the British Association for Modern Mosaic (BAMM).This PftP is about Playing with Colour. It’s about observation, looking, learning and developing an understanding of colour, how colours work together...
Introduction to Mosaic – October
Tutor: Joanna Kessel MA RCA
Location: Glass Lab Edinburgh
Date: 17 & 18 October 2020 (10 – 4pm)
Cost: £185 per person
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