With the Muse Festival and its abundance of creativity around the corner, perhaps a brief look at the history of mosaics might be in order. The history of mosaic dates back some 4 000 years or more, initially with the use of terracotta cones…

Met die Augustuswind wat ruk en pluk aan my rok se pante is ek maar bly dat hoed en sambreel nie deel gevorm het van my uitrusting nie. Tog is die Augustuswinde die voorloper van die lentereën – buig en wieg dus eerder soos ’n jong struik…

Never has there been a time when hands were so important – clean hands, but not touching hands. Yet open hands, caring hands, praying hands, giving hands … In July 2020 the SAQG (South African Quilters Guild) quilt teachers who are members…

The first thing I do when I have booked a flight to Turkey is to buy a travel diary. I create a calendar starting with the date of departure, the date of return, and then I settle down to look at all the empty pages, so full of promise and adventure. In…

The Great Brak River Youth Café celebrated Youth Month during June, and with that hosted many great events to celebrate the Youth in our community. The theme for Youth Month this year was Youth Arise, and arise they did – from our very own…

Scotland is a small country, in square kilometres much smaller than the Western Cape and at its narrowest point a mere 38 km. Although public transport is efficient and easily accessible in the central parts of the country, having your own transport…

At the beginning of March 2022 three new sculptures by Anton Smit were erected in Great Brak River as part of the town’s Art Route. Beginning of wisdom (grey head, front) and Astronomer’s head (in the background) were placed in front…

If you as a budding artist, like me, have often felt the pull of the ocean, stopped to smell the flowers on the side of a less-travelled road, noticed the beautiful sights of a glorious landscape – and couldn’t help but feel that you’d…

Een van my gunstelingskrywers, Patricia Cornwell, bring blykbaar binnekort weer ’n nuwe boek uit. Met dit in gedagte, besluit ek om sommer weer haar hele reeks van voor af te lees. Eers val daar ’n foto van my nagraadse gradeplegtigheid…