Carol Milne

Tessellating Garden Tiles

Tesselations are designs which repeat and connect with themselves to make larger designs.  M.C. Escher was a master of this art form, but other examples exist.  When I was visiting Barcelona, Spain, I came upon an hexagonal tile sidewalk with a repeating pattern (designed by Antonio Gaudi) which inspired me to make my own design in glass.

My design is composed of individual tiles I call “Garden Tiles”.  Each Garden Tile is composed of seven hexagonal tiles.  The diagram illustrates the line drawing of a single hexagon.  The hexagon is composed of 3 plant inspired patterns.  The first one is a spidery design in a single triangle which is mirrored along a central axis.  The second is a trumpet like design in a single triangle which is rotated around a corner point.  And the third is a spiral design composed over two triangles in which the spiral connects up at a series of points equidistant from the corner along two sides.