From the pool to the ‘Pool – John Lennon mosaic on show

From The Liverpool Echo
by Tina Miles, Liverpool Echo

A MOSAIC designed by John Lennon for his swimming pool goes on show at the Beatles Story early next month.

The Magic Eye artwork, a feature at the Beatles legend’s Kenwood estate he shared with first wife Cynthia in Surrey, will move to the visitor attraction at the Albert Dock.

Weighing more than two tons and made up of 17,000 ceramic pieces, the 16ft by 6ft mosaic dates from the mid-1960s.

Liverpool John Moore’s University lab technician and Beatles fan Tom Lorimer spent more than six years restoring Lennon’s work in his spare time.

He removed each of the one-inch-square pieces, known as tesserae, and reset them on to wooden boards in exactly the same design.

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