Culture, Craft & Cooking!

Happy Hallowe'en! It's that time of year again - the clocks have gone back an hour, the sun is setting really early, and I have tak...

Members of the three ceramics workshops, facilitated by James Hayes at Signal Arts Centre, prepared pots last spring for a raku event plann...

Since moving to Ireland in the late 1980s, I have always noticed and wondered at the design of the "shore" coverings that gave acc...

As the previous artist in residence left a few days early, I was handed the keys last Thursday while I was at the ceramics workshop. This g...

Although traditionally this delicious Turkish recipe is complicated to prepare because the final appearance of the aubergines (eggplants) is...

A visit to Antibes is incomplete without paying respect to Jaume Plensa's Le Nomade sculpture looking out to the Mediterranean. T...

Every summer when I am in Antibes, I always check out the beautiful Picasso Museum in the Chateau Grimaldi.  I knew there had been renovati...