Jean Cummiskey

The Audience

Mixed media mosaic

16″ X 13″ (framed)

2019

This work was inspired after attending a performance at The Hanover Theatre in Worcester. I was struck by the beauty of the theater and the diversity of the audience. It includes a mix of mosaic materials– Italian smalti and millefiori glass, stained glass, and polymer clay for the heads.

Jean Cummiskey

Rue Saint-Sulpice, Paris

mixed media mosaic using stained glass, Smalti glass, vitreous tile, and millefiore

21″ x 21″

2023

Whether at the water’s edge, a mountain summit, farmland meadow, or city center, sunsets will often stop me in my tracks. On my first trip to Europe, while staying in Paris, I opened the window where I was staying, to see what was happening on the street below. The setting sun boomeranged across the rooftops, inspiring me when I got home to draw it in pen and ink. More than 40 years later, I translated that drawing into a mosaic to capture the light and magic of that great moment.

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