Creative tensions

The playful, melancholic genius of Erik Satie

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

Tense, carnal, lyrical: a new opera by Rebecca Saunders

Awarded The Artist prize at the annual Royal Institute of Oil Painters’ (ROI) exhibition, self-taught Belgian artist, Valérie Pirlot works predominately in the great outdoors. Depicting the essence of

I bellow, naked under a waterfall in the Welsh countryside, each drop of water as vital as a first kiss. But there’s no one around to hear me, save for countless trees swaying in the breeze as if expr

DEEP in the belly of Gloucestershire hides a ...