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One biggest and most challenging commission to
date was to create the mosaic floor and walls of a fountain and
pond at Longleat, the stately home of the Marquis of Bath in Wiltshire.
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Over 100,000 individual tiles were used in the
project, which took over three months to complete and covers an
area of some 40 square metres (120 square feet). |
The sunken mosaic, believed to be
among the largest modern mosaics in Britain, depicts the drowning
of the mythological character Icarus, whose wings were melted
by the sun when he and his father, Daedalus, sought to escape
the wrath of King Minos of Crete by flying across the sea to Sicily. |
Icarus Mosaic
Photo (c) copyright Philip Yeoman at Bournmouth press agency
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The Sun Maze at Longleat House featuring Icarus mosaic at the
goal
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Based on designs by the world-renowned maze designer
Randoll Coate, the mosaic incorporates images of the terrifying
bull-headed Minotaur which patrolled the dark passages of the
Cretan labyrinth created for King Minos by Daedalus. |
Randoll Coate described it as a
‘daunting task’ which Nathalie and her team achieved
‘with brilliant success’. Nathalie herself was delighted
with the outcome.
Nathalie's work is regularly exhibited and has
recently been featured in The Times newspaper. Other commissions
are shown elsewhere on this site. |
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