St John's Place

The area where I live has a number of small mews
roads. Mews in this case are tiny roads, usually cobbled, squeezed between two buildings. Some of them are straight out of 'Minder', slightly shady looking geezers taking cars of unknown provenance to be fixed up in backstreet garages. These tiny mews streets are also becoming popular as haunts for artists' studios; quiet and tucked away from the world, they offer an ideal place to work.

St John's Place hides one of these studios, yet I had no idea until I happened to see it listed as one of the 'Open Studios' in last year's 'Open House' month.(For more on the Open Houses click here )

Inspired Mosaics is the name of this little gem; I love mosaic but the work at this place took my breath away. It was like discovering a little hive of creativity right under your nose. Been there the whole time, yet never noticed it before it opened it's doors up to the public for one weekend.
I'd love to take one of their mosaic courses one day. Until then I'll just have to visit them during the next Open House month, coming up this May.