6- Arts - Arte

Artist of the Month - Artista del Mes: Laura Valentino

Written by Laura Valentino
Sunday, 05 April 2009 18:44
Laura Valentino Go To Laura Valentino's Gallery Although my work has changed in appearance over the years, there has always been a focus on the portrayal of everyday things in a new light. In the beginning, this was not so much a conscious decision. My large paintings of mundane interiors simply started to take on a life of their own, inhabited by animated wallpapers or anthropomorphic kitchen appliances. In other works, single objects appeared as more important than they really are, an observation of life in an increasingly materialistic world.
Last Updated ( Monday, 15 March 2010 20:02 )
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Artist of the Month - Artista del Mes: Mark Smalley

Written by Mark Smalley

Sunday, 05 April 2009 18:35

Mark Smalley

Go to Mark Smalley's Gallery

I see art as an exciting and fulfilling adventure, one which is intrinsically bound up with the journey through life. The

practise of making art provides similar challenges, frustrations, twists, turns and surprises. It is also a process of self-exploration and helps me to understand myself better. For me, art is about bringing something of our inner life into the real world; to make the invisible, visible. When the skill, emotion and imagination of an artist come together at the right moment, amazing and mysterious things can happen.

Last Updated ( Monday, 15 March 2010 20:03 )

“Fearn”, letter “F

Written by Isabel del Río
Monday, 30 March 2009 15:10
Isabel del Río Our gardens are full of marvellous trees which have been venerated during centuries. In Yareah magazine/January, we started to know and see their poetic secrets by analyzing Robert Graves’ famous essay “The White Goddess - a Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth” and what he calls “The alphabet of trees” in Celtic Druidic culture (letters were known by the name of a tree which started with its same initial. For example, “duir” -our oak- was also the letter “D” and “saille” –our willow- was the letter “S”). We explained that this alphabet had five vowels and thirteen consonants and the reasons why these last ones formed a magic seasonal calendar based on trees and “Mother Nature” which was secretly used by Druids for centuries, even after Christian irruption... they had to hide their magic words and spells of their enemies to prevent their possible attacks, a belief shared by old Greek and Roman religions.
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Royal Tyrrell Museum of Drumheller, Canada.

Written by Traumador the Tyrannosaur
Monday, 30 March 2009 15:08
Traumador the Tyrannosaur Some might accuse me of being biased. I did hatch and grow up at the Tyrrell. Yet my love of the place goes beyond my childhood memories. Having now travelled around the world and seen many of the other great museums out there, the Tyrrell still stands out. At least for its Palaeontology and fossils… Which I’ll admit is what I usually am looking for in a museum.
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