Le blog de Tony White

KRAKOW / LONDON INTERLUDE I had 24 hours in Krakow, a city I love. It was Sunday morning. I strolled around the green belt that encircles the old town center. back past the theatre to the Barbakan (barbican!), which is also a cultural center and opposite...

HUCISKU 2011 The first important event at Hucisku this year was to meet Felek III, the new companion of Adam Wsiolkowski To test the endurance of the participants, Bartosz took us on a trek - during which we lost the way and had to ask a student working...

Strolling at Meze The sand, even The sea feigns stillness beneath high mild evening air, strewn wide with slated clouds, waiting to build-black against arriving stars, Even while last slurries of sun, heap on hap-less cumulus, commas, colons, people punctuating...

A little vid to give a taste of events away from the Orle Gniazdo at Hucisku... driving around, an out-door service at the Cathedral of Czestochowa, Jotka's studio, the Grunwald ceremony at Krakow seen from Adam's office at the Academy, and an accordian...

One day when I was painting in the conference room we had taken over to work in, Wlodzinierz arrived whistling and grinning (nothing unusual!), unrolled a length of canvas, cut it in two, spread out plastic sheeting, taped down the canvas and plastic,...

The trip to Poland didn't start well. I was due to take a bus from Montpellier to Barcelona where I would catch a plane to Katowice. But when the bus arrived at quarter past midnight it was already full. Two hours later I was driving to Barcelona. The...

RIVER between its eaten banks a water-band bends gently, slung across the curve of earth, moulding to the sunken forms and images with breath withheld, movements hung within a realm of never-failing liquid rules where plants must bow and only fish may...

Qalam - Persian, a pen Qalamkari - writing written Kalamkari in English, a method of colouring and decorating by several dyeings or printings. This is how this painting was made and what it is about... detail 1 detail 2 visit album Qalamkari to see entire...

This is Chen Li at Scampia, casually demonstrating her calligraphic talents!