Darkness visible

One of the greatest challenges for a poet is to find something new to say. It’s all been said before. Any poet who manages to find a truly original subject should keep very quiet about it, write the p

Colour provides an avenue into ‘worlds’, or spheres-of-being, other than that recognised by everyday perception”.1 So said the artist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun, summarising the colour-theory of t

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

SOMETIMES THE INSPIRATION FOR YOUR NEXT PAINTING can be right in front of you – literally. Trying to find the correct subject with great lighting and composition is quite an art: a lot of images won’t

What makes a novel of ideas?

Alíz Kovács-Zöldi considers…