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Interview by Nina Pandeva with the artist Silvia Baldeva Translation by Asya Draganova Silvia Baldeva: “It doesn’t matter if it is realistic or abstract art: there should be an echo.” The palette of talents and activities of the artist Silvia Baldeva is diverse: Drawings, pictures, illustrations, stylist works, decorations. She had her first exhibition in […]

Photo: wonderlane For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey. Photo: nathalielaure If there is any substitute for love, it is memory. Photo: kjunstorm After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. […]

Photo: sakeeb A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns. Photo: mihaibojin He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the […]

Jolene Bertetto Photo:Jolene Bertetto It has been said that The Brooklyn Bridge was New York City’s first skyscraper. The Bridge’s two gothic arches of the masonry towers were meant to dwarf the surrounding buildings and rise up as one of the city’s tallest points. While it no longer stands as a podium in which one […]

Photo: laprimadonna Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it. Photo: silkebaron Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained. Photo: silkebaron Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Photo: flatworldsedge Can anyone remember love? It’s like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. Photo: specialkrb It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you […]

It tells a story. It has a life. It is breathing. It is spontaneous….It is the amazing art of hand shadows. The vivid pictures it draws could carry you away to the world of fairy-tales, in another dimension. And what hides behind its unique artistic nature is the ingenious simplicity involved in it. The light […]

To coincide with Frieze art fair Art Barter are bringing you their very first MINI BARTER! East London’s Maurice Einhardt Neu Gallery will be host to 10 artists selected from previous shows as well as two newcomers. Artists will include Mat Collishaw, Polly Morgan and Tim & Sue and you have just one night and […]

An interview with the singer and the songwriter Matt Charles by Lyudmila Yordanova Matt Charles is a singer and a songwriter, born in Tasmania. His home town is Hobart, on the island of Tasmania. More recently he lived in northern Australia and down to the port town of Fremantle on the west coast. He now finds himself in Hamburg […]

An interview with the photographer Jay Goodrich by Aneliya Angelcheva “And Beauty is a form of Genius…” Oscar Wild What is actually needed to capture the beauty of a moment? Love, passion, emotion…? Jay Goodrich is a photographer whose artwork goes beyond capturing the moment. He shares a feeling, a fleeting, beautiful moment in space […]

Klara Barcic In the very South of Croatia there is a region called Cetinska Krajina, an area along the valley of river Cetina, the most water-rich river in Dalmatia. Of breathtaking beauty and archeologically very important this part of Croatia is today a lure for those tourists who are particularly fond of rafting adventures. Cetina […]

Photo: truette By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Photo: 007bond A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Photo: hevertonwoss If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere. Photo: shimelle It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Katerina Stoykova-Klemer’s Interview with Conference Director Julie Wrinn Julie Kuzneski Wrinn became director of the conference in 2007 after serving for three years on its board of directors. A native of Indiana, Pennsylvania, she received Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in English from the University of Virginia. A ten-year veteran of the book publishing business, she […]

Klara Barcic When people who like to travel talk about Croatia, they usually talk about its magnificent coast and its 1200 islands, covered with green carpets of scented Mediterranean vegetation. Little is known about its hinterland. Indeed, it is difficult to count all the sights to be seen and all the cities that well deserve […]

Interview with Cliff Snell III by Galya Mladenova Cliff Snell III is the American “fairytale surrealist” artist. His “fairytale” swirling nature paintings are very distinctive, and his collectors prize his dreamy, but precise use of color. Naturalists enjoy his ability to present an accurate, if beautiful specimen of a plant, and those who seek beauty […]

Zdravka Evtimova Photo: megyarsh Shon didn’t have enough money. All his friends had forgotten him. He couldn’t pay his sex tax and that meant that he could no longer be a man. He’d be processed into a stone, and he knew he’d be deaf and blind dust. Each particle of the dust he would turn […]

Klara Barcic At this time of the year many tourists head for Siena. It is not only its beauty, and its historic centre, declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site, that attract many visitors every year, but the city is also famous for the well known palio, a horce race traditionally called the Carriera, which […]

Interview with Sue Nichol by Galya Mladenova Sue Nichol is a British artist who paints places with which she has strong associations and knows very well. She’s attracted to the ‘edges of the land’ – fabulous and varied coastlines or the rocky edges found throughout the British landscape. She paints using oils, acrylics and ink […]

Klara Barcic There is an extremely interesting and mysterious point in the north-west of France, which a traveler cannot leave without saying au revoir, à la prochaine (in Breton kenavo ar c’hentañ). This point is called Brittany (Breizh). Its cliffs are very well acquainted with dark ocean storms and with the awfully unpredictable strength of […]