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Rencontre Internationales de Mosaïque - October 10 - October 31 2026.

Venues : Chapelle Fulbert & Salle du Comité Saint-Pierre 10 October - 31 October 2026. Vernissage for both - Saturday 10 October

An exciting time to be in Chartres in France ! The Association 3RS celebrates 30 years of exhibiting mosaic. This anniversary event will take place in the light and spacious chapel of Saint Fulbert, 62 rue Saint Chéron, Chartres, where selected work from both professional and amateur mosaicists will be on exhibition.

Chartres is also celebrating a second anniversary of exhibiting mosaic - 20 years of hosting professional mosaic artists from around the world. Each artist has previously held a three month exhibition in the lovely chapel gallery of Saint Éman. This October in a special exhibition, 35 of the artists artists from Japan, France, Italy, Australia, America and worldwide have been invited to exhibit just one piece of their work under the title Rencontre / Encounter. Each work, whether sculptural or wall hung, is to have the same dimension 30 x 30 centimetres. This unique exhibition will be held in the Salle du Comité Saint-Pierre. I have works in both exhibitions.

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Reflections on Light - Thursday April 1- Saturday April 3 2027

Kennaway House Gallery, Sidmouth, Devon, England

An exciting time to be in Chartres in France ! The Association 3RS celebrates 30 years of exhibiting mosaic. This anniversary event will take place in the light and spacious chapel of Saint Fulbert, 62 rue Saint Chéron, Chartres, where selected work from both professional and amateur mosaicists will be on exhibition.

Chartres is also celebrating a second anniversary of exhibiting mosaic - 20 years of hosting professional mosaic artists from around the world. Each artist has previously held a three month exhibition in the lovely chapel gallery of Saint Éman. This October in a special exhibition, 35 of the artists artists from Japan, France, Italy, Australia, America and worldwide have been invited to exhibit just one piece of their work under the title Rencontre / Encounter. Each work, whether sculptural or wall hung, is to have the same dimension 30 x 30 centimetres. This unique exhibition will be held in the Salle du Comité Saint-Pierre. I have works in both exhibitions.

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Inspirations Antiques: révoquées - May 2027- April 2028

Gallery/atelier Elaine M Goodwin 4 Place de L’Eglise, Couches, France

I have invited the renowned Scottish mosaic artist Dugald MacInnes to exhibit with me again in my gallery under the shared title - Ancient Inspirations : re-evalued.

Antique classical sculptures - both Greek and Roman - were among the first influences in my mosaic work, particular the torso. These anonymous works of art seemed to hold within their proportions both great aesthetic beauty and extraordinary wonder. I was intrigued to transfer their sculptural qualities into mosaic ones.

In March 2026, I stayed in Athens three weeks while participating in an International exhibition of mosaic. Each day, I visited ancient sites and museums to once again view these extraordinary anonymous sculptures and find that they held the same power. In this exhibition I re-evalue my looking and again translate something of their fascination over me into a series of mosaics, using the materials of antiquity; marble, gold and glass. Dugald too, returns to one of his first inspirational loves, the menhir - tall, standing stones of the Bronze Age. His works use slate throughout, but not as a mosaicist principally but because of his love of this material which he finds and digs out himself in south west Scotland. His profound knowledge of geology and of archeology informs his looking and also his method of working. For this exhibition he has created a new series of works reassessing his appeal in these ancient, mystic stones.

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Darkness & Light / Ténèbre & Lumière - September - October 2027

Bibliothèque Universitaire, 4 rue de l’Université, le Creusot, Bourgogne

The majestic, industrial Schneider building of the library of the University of Le Creusot, was constructed as a hall in 1849 for industrial railway and crane building for the Schneider establishments. It has huge, classically inspired windows illuminating the inner exhibition hall and makes an ideal exhibition space to fully illustrate one aspect of my work - Light..

I have selected works created from 2016, since moving from England to my atelier home here in Couches in Burgundy. I have chosen to exhibit black, white, silver and copper and gold tones only - no specific colours - to best concentrate on the various perceptions of my imagery; in this powerful setting.

Like one of my favourite French artists, the late Pierre Soulages, whose work I first admired as an art student in the Tate in the 1970s, I know that light playing on a surface, especially a black surface, can influence our way of looking and understanding of the meaning of an art work. The movement of the viewer is invited to begin a co-responding dialogue with the work being viewed...it can be playful, puzzling, profound or simply marvellous!

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