Mosaic is a very popular art form in Pretoria and as far as I can tell throughout South Africa. Even tiny gift and craft stores carry Mosaic supplies and there are several studios where you can go to Mosaic much like the stores to paint pottery in the United States. A South African craft magazine,
Craftwise, seems to have a mosaic article every month. Due to the prevalence of mosaic the boys and I decided to make mosaic picture frames for dad at the
i Create Studio. It is really amazing how their artwork reflects their personality.
Here are some photos of mosaic in the community.
Badec Bros has a cool mosaic along a busy street out side their showroom. House numbers are often done in an artistic way in Pretoria. Even the side of a building may be done in mosaic.
There are several examples of mosaic in restaurants, the most obvious is
Restaurant Mosaic, with it's beautiful mosaics of Mucha's designs.
La Pentola has a large tree mosaic on one of the back walls.
Notice the mosaic pillars at Cafe 41 or the beautiful giant garden pots at
Braza. (As an aside, take time to look at the interesting menus of these restaurants as well.) Most mosaic is in interior spaces that I don't have access to but at the bottom of the page are some photos from the web that show the kind of designs popular with crafters. The photos are from
http://www.craftycorner.co.za/ which has some free step by step classes online.
Mosaic is a very popular art form in Pretoria and as far as I can tell throughout South Africa. Even tiny gift and craft stores carry Mosaic supplies and there are several studios where you can go to Mosaic much like the stores to paint pottery in the United States. A South African craft magazine, Craftwise, seems to have a mosaic article every month. Due to the prevalence of mosaic the boys and I decided to make mosaic picture frames for dad at the i Create Studio. It is really amazing how their artwork reflects their personality.
There are several examples of mosaic in restaurants, the most obvious is Restaurant Mosaic, with it's beautiful mosaics of Mucha's designs. La Pentola has a large tree mosaic on one of the back walls. Notice the mosaic pillars at Cafe 41 or the beautiful giant garden pots at Braza. (As an aside, take time to look at the interesting menus of these restaurants as well.) Most mosaic is in interior spaces that I don't have access to but at the bottom of the page are some photos from the web that show the kind of designs popular with crafters. The photos are from http://www.craftycorner.co.za/ which has some free step by step classes online.
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