Catalan painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor, Antoni Tàpies is probably not everybody’s cup of tea!
“La terre, le feu, l’eau, l’air”, Jean Lurcat’s work at the Musée Rigaud in Perpignan, emphasises the elemental , experimental nature of the artist’s journey.
Love and War in the Pyrenees by Rosemary Bailey is available in paperback, the cover glowing with the colourful stripes so familiar to lovers of the Catalan fabric of St Laurent de Cerdans.
Another day, another Rigaud : Ellen Turner Hall imagines herself as Perpignan legend, Hyacinthe Rigaud, as he paints his famous Self Portrait.
The latest show at the Pavillon des Arts in Port Vendres is a pleasing marriage of painting and sculpture.
A french classic and must-read for french learners.
Plein Soleil tells a dramatic story, touching and violent and hopeful in turns.
This poem is hard to understand for those who have never lived in the Midi, or southern part of France, but once the hot summer days have been experienced, it makes perfect sense.
French writer and poet describes the massacre as unspeakable, its wounds so deep that we dare not mention them, in this desolate poem, ‘Oradour’.
We would really like to turn the front cover into a showcase for local artists…