By Julia Taylor
BEFORE you pass over Tracey Cartledge’s glazed porcelain mosaic to enter the Bean and Brush family art café in Sale, look at the right-hand wall and you’ll see a metal art work of a coffee beanstalk combined with a mosaic artist’s palette and butterfly.
The mosaics were designed and installed by Tracey. She said: “I was delighted when they asked for me again because it showed they liked my work.”
The forged steel elements depicting a beanstalk with changing coloured lights, were by Luke Lister, blacksmiths, from Stockport. The entire work, which was designed by Tracey, was completed on November 16.
Tracey said: “I have made it look as though the beanstalk comes out of the window and spreads across the wall. It carries the message - 'Eat, Drink and Create'.
“I made the mosaics in my studio and they were installed in a day.”
Tracey, 48, began as a sole trader in 1991, two years after gaining a fine arts degree. from Wolverhampton University to which she recently added a Royal Academy bronze casting certificate.
In 2008 she became the lead artist in a project to create a space of contemplation in Kingsway Park, Urmston, to commemorate its role as an anti-aircraft gun battery in the Second World War.
Working alongside Trafford’s project landscape architect, Adam Rout, she installed a mosaic to mark the centenary of Longford Park in 2012, completing the second phase in 2014.
Graham Starling from the Bean and Brush said: “We were looking for something different and we are very pleased with the work Tracey has done.”
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