SOUTH AMERICA THROUGH ROSE TINTED SPECTACLES In 2011 Sandy Rose and her husband Nigel, decided that they needed a break from their retired lifestyle in a quaint French village in the beautiful Pyrenees Orientales and…
Fisherman-artist: Francois Bernadi By Ellen Turner Hall Born in Collioure in 1922 into a family of fishermen, Francois Bernadi’s days were intimately entwined with ropes and chains, anchors and sails. From a life…
Natural Magick Cindy Guilbert of St Laurent de Cerdans in the Vallespir talks about her book on easily found herbs, Natural Magick. I made a change of direction in mid-life and I…
By Ellen Turner Hall Itaca, the mythological home of Ulysses, the greatest of Mediterranean voyagers, signifies a longing to…
Filmed in Montpellier: Battle of the Year Benson Lee’s fictional movie “Battle of the Year,” starring Chris Brown, is a scripted remake of his own 2007 nonfiction break-dancing film, “Planet B-Boy.” Battle of…
by Ellen Turner Hall If you have ever walked beside the port building in Port Vendres, you may have noticed a sculpture of a traveller weighed down by two large suitcases. “Le Voyageur”, another…
July 28th – Aug 4th 2013 THE ANIMALS OF ARLES SUR TECH – AS ESPADRILLES! Sara von Ehrenheim, Swedish artist at the Art Residency of Arles sur Tech, a project created by Teresa…
22 June to 29 September 2013 Contemporary Art with a Smile By Ellen Turner Hall The summer exhibition “Jamais 2 sans toi” at the Château de Jau is given over to couples: Ida…
Sant Vicens, Perpignan Come and meet resident potters Jo Ann Bosc, Antoine Noetinger and Claire Bauby Gasparian, every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Ceramics, paintings and tapestries fill an exhuberant Aladdin’s cave…
By Ellen Turner Hall The drawings and paintings of Edouard Pignon, Femmes en Mediterranée, are on show at Collioure’s modern art museum from 1 June to 13 October. Pignon’s Women of the Mediterranean were…