AN artist who completed a 39sqm mosaic started by her late mother is to fly to Brazil to install it.
Rosie Skaife d'Ingerthorpe, who has a studio in Thirsk, decided to finish the piece after her mother, well-known artist Marjorie Knowles, died in 1998.
The huge mosaic depicts the Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil, and has taken nine years to complete.
It has already been shipped to the South American country to be installed in a private house and Ms Skaife d'Ingerthorpe is about to follow it there to oversee the process. "In a way, it is a shame that it is going to a private house, because it is not going to be seen by the general public," she said.
She visited Kew Gardens in Surrey for detailed research on rainforest plants and also took inspiration from landscape closer to home by using a waterfall at Goathland, on the North York Moors, as a model for the mosaic.
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