PAUL SCOTT DERRICK Ian Sharp (b. 1954 in Louth, Lincolnshire) is an undiscovered talent. Except for a smattering of local exhibitions in the city of Valencia, where he lived from 1984 till 1996, and a few more in the seaside…
Modesty and Mastery
Art
Looking at trees
MALCOLM HEBRON I once read a good story – whether real or apocryphal, I do not know – about four artists in the early twentieth century, on a painting expedition in the countryside. All had been trained in the academic…
Letters Flying from the Page
BILL LEWIS Syzygy The book opens. The mind opens. They recognise Each other as Brother and sister. The mind reads The book as the Book searches The mind for their Lost sibling: The heart. Abraxas The curtain is torn The…
The Floating Universe of poet Gabriel Rosenstock
The Floating Universe is an online booklet of ekphrastic haiku, i.e. responding to works of art (in public domain), in Irish and English by Gabriel Rosenstock, translated into Scots by John McDonald, into Japanese by Mariko Sumikura and into Greek…
Trees of the mind
MIRIAM NEIGER-FLEISCHMANN While working on the translation of Richard Berengarten’s Tree into the Hebrew language and getting deep into the sense and essence of the tree as depicted in the poem, I was inspired to make a series of watercolour…
Jabar Saphon: the Stones of Artist Nizar Ali Badr
NAZ OKE The Syrian sculptor Nizar Ali Badr is a discrete man. Words aren’t what make him tick. Stones make him tick. I know nothing about him, where exactly he comes from, nor where he is at the moment. I…
The Magic Box
Laura Fo’s little theatres GIANFRANCO EVANGELISTA (edited by) Theatre, Theatre and Theatre again. Theatre, as an illusion and as a source of inspiration, as commitment, work and construction of an idea, becomes the pyrotechnical vent of an artist who has…