Maggy Howarth obituary

Maggy Howarth ‘had this extraordinary method of working, creating the patterns upside down in boxes and then setting them in concrete,’ explained the garden designer Arabella Lennox-Boyd. Photograph: Maggy Howarth Studios

The artist Maggy Howarth, who has died aged 79, once said: “I think I am the only pebble mosaic practitioner in the United Kingdom.” Her creative medium may have been an unusual choice, but despite this – or perhaps because of it – you can see examples of her work throughout the UK, in public places and private gardens.

Part of the charm of her designs lies in their naturalistic themes: she favoured insects, flowers or sea creatures, creating pictures and patterns in coloured pebbles that swirl across pavements and terraces.