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Ode to Canigou

Kate 25/07/2025 0 Comments

A selection of poems paying homage to our sacred Mountain, Mount Canigou

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The Museum of Art Brut, Montpellier

Kate 18/07/2025 0 Comments

An extraordinary collection of works produced by the crazy, the unattached and the marginal, the Museum of Art Brut  is a true delight in this all-too-rational world.

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Maillol and Picasso. Two artists’ different views of  the ideal woman.

Kate 08/07/2025 0 Comments

To mark its 75th anniversary, Céret museum has gathered over sixty works of art which represent a variety of artists from all over the world.

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75 years of friendship at Céret Art Gallery… with Ellen Turner Hall

Kate 24/06/2025 0 Comments

To mark its 75th anniversary, Céret museum has gathered over sixty works of art which represent a variety of artists from all over the world.

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Ode to Amélie-les-Bains

Kate 06/06/2025 0 Comments

Marc Anfossi , Parisien writer, wrote this poem when he came to Amélie-les-Bains to take the waters in January 1912.

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An old atelier revived by young artists…Céret

Kate 27/05/2025 3 Comments

Romer Kitching and friends are preparing a group exhibition in Pierre Brune’s former workshop.

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Poem: A Canigou walk

Kate 23/05/2025 0 Comments

I walked up the Canigou last Saturday Not for the first time I venture to say Each time it gets harder to complete the way up…..

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Maturin in the Pyrenees-Orientales

Kate 21/05/2025 2 Comments

Doctor, specialist in the study of birds, beetles and tortoises, accomplished cellist…….

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Literary genius in the PO: Limericks

Kate 15/05/2025 7 Comments

Silly P-O limericks

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Matisse, Dérain and Collioure

Kate 14/05/2025 1 Comment

Henri Matisse arrived in Collioure in May 1905 at the age of 36, depressed, full of self doubts and very short of money. André Derain soon followed.

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