![]() ![]() ![]() “I like the idea that the pieces can be placed together in different positions,” Charlie identifies. For the show, Charlie experimented with dip, trip and quadrip-tych sets of mosaics. Now, Charlie’s practice is one that has three “main arms” to it: predominantly physical tile mosaics, alongside mural paintings and design or illustration, all linked by their mosaic focus and the celebration of “colour, shape and form”.Ĭurrently, Charlie’s works are showing in his first solo show Half-Full at Paul’s Smith’s flagship store in Mayfair, running until 7 May. “Something just clicked in me the day I rediscovered the medium of mosaic.” It was around six or seven years ago that the artist returned to the craft, finding himself still inspired by the works he’d both seen and created growing up. “I’ve always found such joy in colour and using my hands to create,” he says. ![]() The art form is one that Charlie encountered and practised in childhood, due to “some bizarre mosaic-related history” in his family. Then the work can evolve, grow or change within the making (or playing) process,” the artist details. “These three elements form the framework or parameters for the play to exist within. Then, Charlie will then work out the size and shape of the canvas, followed by the subject he wants to capture. But it’s often the colour that Charlie will fully immerse himself in, and sometimes he'll spend days finding the right tile or grout colour combinations. By working this way, he's able to produce “fluidness and imperfection”, creating “an interesting tension with the locked-in rigidity of the mosaic process”. One of which is his use of “raw, organic broken shapes”, as opposed to “crafting individual shards into perfect pieces”. To allow this playful approach to flourish, Charlie has a few carefully selected materials and honed techniques. “My approach is the opposite I see the making process as play, open-ended play.” “If I tried to describe traditional mosaic artwork, I would say that it’s firmly about the ‘destination’,” he explains. For Charlie Sheppard – a London and Bath-based mosaic artist and creative at Anyways – the beauty of his craft is all in the process. ![]()
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