Osmose represents the interaction between the two artistic universes of sculptor Agnes Bogaert and painter Christelle Romulus, currently at the Domaine Claire Mayol in Port Vendres.
“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.
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…
Picasso’s Guernica, McCrae’s In Flanders’ Fields, even Newton’s discovery of gravity… times of hardship give rise to great creativity and we’re sure that our current situation is no different! Each week we publish YOUR artistic offerings based on a chosen theme.