IN PRAISE OF THE POETS: Victor Fernandez Gopar

STATUE STANDS STILL AND DIGNIFIED AGAINST STORM new statue stands proudly against the storm Victor Fernandez Gopar often celebrated the importance of salt to this island, writing wonderful poetry about it, and many of those poems have…
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DRAGONS, DRAMA & DRAWINGS

DRAGONS ROAM THE STREETS; THE RAT LOOKS ON a quick catch up The Year Of The Rat is the first sign in the Chinese zodiac cycle. According to the Chinese zodiac story, in the competition held by the Jade Emperor to decide the zodiac…

DON´T GO BREAKING MY ART

ALL ART HAS ITS PLACE Greater love hath no man for his readers than to write an article when he could have been exploring his local landscape to catch glimpses of Angelina Jolie (pictured above). This week she and her co-stars, Salma Hayek,…

SALFORD: ART AND SOUL

When actor Timothy Spall brought to life one of Britain´s favourite artists, painter JMW Turner,  in the 2014 film Mr. Turner, he awakened public interest in Margate, a town so often at the centre of Turner´s work. Now, as Spall embarks…

Underwater Museums and Revealing the River

Rising Tide was part of the hugely successful Totally Thames Festival shown in London last month. This part of the collection, put together by an artist taking his first London commission, consisted of four equine sculptures placed on the shores…