KIM GRANT MOSAICS

I grew up in Canberra, Australia and returned after a long spell of travel and living overseas.
After renovating my home and doing all of the tiling, my father asked if I'd do a small installation in his home using leftover slate. This was to be my first mosaic and I discovered that it was much harder than it appeared!
I then started experimenting with tools and tile and grout and found my artistic voice. It quickly became an obsession.
On my travels back to the Bay Area of CA where I lived for a number of years, I discovered the Institute of Mosaic Art where I took a couple classes and also got involved in The Society of American Mosaic Artists (SAMA) and The Mosaic Association of Australia and New Zealand (MAANZ).
After much experimentation and developing my own style of mosaics along with plenty of experience under my belt, I opened as a small business in 2009 taking commissions, teaching classes and facilitating community projects.
With community projects and Artist in Residencies at local schools, I have found an area of my art that has purpose and meaning with more than just ornamental value. It is this that I am most passionate. In these community projects I enter with a humanitarian spirit to assist others create collaboratively; to encourage a collective learning initiative in a supportive and nurturing environment. My aim is simple; to encourage the freedom of creative self-expression and community spirit within a mosaic medium context.
Mosaic provides a solitude, stillness and meditative state that heightens my experience of this world and my hope is to impart even a small amount of this magic.