I love to use unusual materials to create a likeness of every subject. Coins can generate an interesting and occasionally amusing link between materials and subject – Mrs Thatcher who disliked the idea of a common Euro currency created from one cents for example.
I am fascinated about the aspect of how something so ostensibly mundane and ordinary as a single coin or handful of coins can be transformed when used in a particular way. It’s a new way of both developing the centuries-old medium of mosaic and the stye of art that is portraiture.
It intrigues me how the neat, smooth uniformity of rows and columns of coins can capture something as unique, angular and irregular as a human (or cartoon!) face when assembled correctly.
Hours and hours of painstaking work goes into creating each and beforehand the chosen subject’s best images are selected to ensure the greatest likeness of each.
Each mosaic portrait is unique and original - not part of an edition - and contains more than 2,500 coins.
Size: 120x80 cm
I love to use unusual materials to create a likeness of every subject. Coins can generate an interesting and occasionally amusing link between materials and subject – Mrs Thatcher who disliked the idea of a common Euro currency created from one cents for example.
I am fascinated about the aspect of how something so ostensibly mundane and ordinary as a single coin or handful of coins can be transformed when used in a particular way. It’s a new way of both developing the centuries-old medium of mosaic and the stye of art that is portraiture.
It intrigues me how the neat, smooth uniformity of rows and columns of coins can capture something as unique, angular and irregular as a human (or cartoon!) face when assembled correctly.
Hours and hours of painstaking work goes into creating each and beforehand the chosen subject’s best images are selected to ensure the greatest likeness of each.
Each mosaic portrait is unique and original - not part of an edition - and contains more than 2,500 coins.
Size: 120x80 cm