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Boost Your Immune System Now!

Now that we have emerged from lockdowns and are circulating a lot more freely than we have done since winter 2019, we are more susceptible to catch colds and flu. We haven’t been gathering together, due to being in lockdown the whole of last winter, and this will cause problems for our immune system because…

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Art & Nature Series: Wilhelm Sasnal

Wilhelm SasnalUntitled (2010) The artist, filmmaker, photographer, and illustrator Wilhelm Sasnal creates graphic and atmospheric paintings culminating inspiration from daily life, media, and art history. The subdued nature of his work is heavily influenced by gothic imagery from the visual culture of the music he grew up on. The artist became tired of the pretentiousness…

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Art & Nature Series: Anna Bjerger

Anna Bjerger – Acid/Creek (2018) Anna Bjerger’s process uses photographs from her collection of books as references. She talks about how, as a child she was always interested about what was happening in the background of the main protagonist.By using photos she rescues images “that would otherwise disappear” and re-contextualises them through the physicality of…

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Art & Nature Series: Mamma Andersson

Mamma Andersson constructs cinematic scenes – showing the full spectrum of Nordic landscapes. Her use of colour is reactionary, favouring both expressive blocks of colour along with almost translucent tints. This build-up of colour creates a depth of colour and atmosphere.Andersson is unafraid to have large areas of black, immediately catching your eye. She threads…

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Art & Nature Series: Nigel Cooke

Nigel CookeArtist’s Garden 2 (2018)“I’ve reached a point where I feel I want something to be democratic in terms of interpretation. The work is like a screen that is available for projection.” Nigel Cooke achieves this elusive in between of figuration and abstraction, which leads to works that are open to viewer’s interpretation of what…

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Art & Nature Series: JMW Turner

Turner’s desire to understand the world led him to pioneer Romantic paintings, focusing on capturing the emotional experience of the landscape through expressive brush marks and luminous colours. For many years he trained as an accomplished watercolourist leading him to work boldly and quickly. His skills, translated into an eclectic style, led him to paint…

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