Tiles can tell a story as well as a strip cartoon. This project was based round a local Snowdonia legend of Merlin and the red and white dragons. It was designed to create a local atmosphere in the wedding venue at Llyn Gwynant campsite. To be flexible all the panels were framed so they could be moved round if needed.
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- Project for framed tile panels. Sketches, coloured scale drawings, and full sized working drawings+ glaze samples below.
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- Vortigern flees England to Snowdonia, Wales. He chooses a castle site at Dinas Emrys, but the castle subsides.
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- Vortigern takes advice and sends out messengers.
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- Messengers find Merlin and return with him and his mother.
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- Merlin explains that the subsidence of the castle is caused by the 2 dragons below. Vortigern digs down and discovers 2 eggs containing dragons in the bed of a pool in the cave below.
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- The fighting red and white dragons watched by Merlin and king Vortigern. Then Merlin tells of the future.
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- The framed panels are used as decorative narrative.
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