Many were inspired by the beautiful mosaic Caroline Shaw so expertly brought into being in 2020 outside the Universal Hall, organising a team of (mostly) volunteers and galvanising Craig Gibsone into rebuilding the Park pottery. You can read her story here.

After that project was completed there were still hundreds of stunning mosaic pieces available for sale from The Park Pottery, to support the fundraising campaign.

I want to show you others’ efforts, including mine and Göran’s: a patio outside Gabrielle’s house in the Soillse cluster. Ian Turnbull was my guide/mentor for pointing our mosaic, and setting the two mosaic features (not just ‘stoned’ but spacey too, with one looking like a swirl of space matter, the other a pudgy comet)! It’s been amazing to learn so much from and with the stone and cement, and invaluable to have pointing help (as well as most of these pics) from my lovely neighbour Shona Kriss.

East Whins has put in a river pathway along its pottery and laundry.

John Willoner has added mosaic pieces to his existing paved pathway.

And Cornelia and Sylvia have had a Tree of Life feature placed in their patio.

Tree mosaic at Caledonia

Heartfelt thanks are due to our young master mason Sebastian Freudenthal who laid much of the sandstone paving, as well as the mosaic elves who worked with Craig producing literally thousands of gorgeous pieces.