By Ellen Turner Hall Have you noticed how the sun sets each day, painting the sky red and purple before it drops behind the Albères? That moment, as the light sets the earth afire, Thomas…
My name is Cindy Guilbert. I was born in Guernsey in the Channel Island. My husband Marcel and I moved to France in 2001, to the beautiful Catalan village of St Laurent de Cerdans in…
Artist residency in Arles-sur-Tech Arles-sur-Tech is situated in the last valley of the Pyrenées Orientales in France, along the border with Spain, overlooked by the famous Canigou mountains. It has a long memory…
Absolutely Jane Mann! By Ellen Hall Whether you just hopped off the plane in Perpignan or have roamed the region for the last 30 years, Jane Mann’s latest book – Absolutely Almost All You need…
Paint, pencils and passion… Paint, pencils and passion…….. are all you need to become an artist. So says Ari Hantke, trilingual artist, architect and musician, who will be offering a ‘Watercolour Summer School’ around…
In 1923, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife Margaret Macdonald went on holiday to Roussillon, in the South of France, to rest and recuperate.
Etienne Conte: Eye Witness By Ellen Turner Hall For someone who describes himself as shy, Etienne Conte overcomes his natural reticence when talking about photography. A native of Roussillon, he describes himself as a “flaneur”,…
Maurice Matieu: Shadows By Ellen Hall The Museum of Collioure stands among terraces of pines and olive trees rising to the restored mill, its arms wide open to the wind. In the current exhibition of…
It is quite natural that Gildas Girodeau’s detective novels are set in his native Catalonia.
Gem Melville – hand painted textiles and a colourful life! The talented Gem Melville was born 1949, in Vryheid, South Africa where she lived and worked until 2001. She has focused on textiles since 1992,…