Artwork is always a winner when it comes to filling wall space. If structured grids and galleries aren’t for you, create a more informal look with a mix of painted watercolours or oil-painted pieces displayed in vintage picture frames. Suspendisse consequat odio convallis, accumsan sapien ac, eleifend eros. Nunc ipsum justo, convallis sed hendrerit sed, placerat vitae quam. Aliquam sed facilisis metus. Quisque commodo ante arcu. Pellentesque pharetra ut leo in malesuada. Donec quis mauris tincidunt, lacinia mi vel, lacinia nulla. Praesent mattis lacus leo, accumsan dapibus metus placerat at. Curabitur fringilla sodales enim, vitae placerat nibh pretium sit amet. Curabitur interdum leo turpis, et pharetra diam molestie sed. Phasellus pellentesque at tellus nec fringilla. Maecenas vitae ultricies ex. Donec accumsan felis vitae dui bibendum hendrerit. Quisque velit elit, congue tempus risus et, ultrices mollis ligula. Sed mattis tincidunt massa. Donec et augue venenatis lectus faucibus sodales id vitae nunc. Living Pictures Summer Workshop: Stanislavsky’s ACTIVE ANALYSIS, 1st – 12th August (Monday to Friday) These fractured poem-stories are composed of disjunctively arranged images, slices of memory both personal and historical, and a shadowy array of citations of varying levels of obscurity and recognizability, creating unique prose tissues that carve out a space for themselves in an ambiguous zone between critical essay, autobiography, poetry, and short fiction. What is unambiguous is their success: They are extraordinarily powerful works, at turns densely evocative and dizzyingly erudite, doing many of the best things that writing can do. Barskova, following the method of her poetry, manages by painstaking technique and sheer force of image to ponder herself considering the Siege and its survivors, drawing from life and art to represent an experience of personal trauma mediated by communication with history.

Barskova’s arguments or presentations of history or biography tend to follow poetic logic, and her own biography and recollections rest atop the city’s tragedy.Moving into the fourth section of the show, New Subjectivity explores the disappearing distinction between photography and fine art, and the emergence of photographic discourse. Representing reality as truth is no longer photography’s endeavour, instead, it facilitates different meanings and understandings of it, and even reflects on the artificiality of the medium. We give thousands of blind and partially sighted people the opportunity to borrow our Touch to See books from a free postal library. Polina Barskova was born and brought up in Leningrad over 30 years after the end of the siege of that city by the Germans during WWII. The siege lasted from September 1941 to January 1944. The siege cast a long shadow which still affected the lives of the children in the 1970s and early 1980s. Reminders were all around, a preserved bomb shelter, missing buildings, walls scarred by shell fragments, and in memorials. A poignant collection of short pieces about the author's hometown, St. Petersburg, Russia, and the siege of Leningrad that combines memoir, history, and fiction. While more traditional to paint skirtings and woodwork in standard white, this creates a harsh break that jars the eye visually, while continuous colour helps blur the lines and will also save cutting-in time when painting.

Our Carmarthenshire centre, Coed Dylan provides opportunities in sustainable gardening and land-based enterprises as well as creative workshops. Our mission there is to champion inclusion and nurture skills and lifelong learning via the natural world. The main design goal of this Northern European country style home was to use traditional, authentic materials that would have been used ages ago. ORIJIN STONE premium stone was selected as one such material, taking the main stage throughout key living areas including the custom hand carved Alder™ Limestone fireplace in the living room, as well as the master bedroom Alder fireplace surround, the Greydon™ Sandstone cobbles used for flooring in the den, porch and dining room as well as the front walk, and for the Greydon Sandstone paving & treads forming the front entrance steps and landing, throughout the garden walkways and patios and surrounding the beautiful pool. This home was designed and built to withstand both trends and time, a true & charming heirloom estate. With more than 300 images by nearly 100 photographers, the largest-ever survey of south-east Asian photography is on show at the National Gallery Singapore. It attempts to place photography from and about the region in the compendiums of local art history, and in the history of photography at large.

Dark living room walls also make a great foil for rich colours, plush textures and metallic finishes, so bring in lots of sparkle and shine on accent furniture, soft furnishings and wall art. Make your own art with a length or two of metallic wallpaper on a large panel, an easy way of introducing a touch of pattern without a full-on look. Thanks to Community Foundation Wales we are improving disability access in the Polytunnel and garden. We provide training and development for young people who learn differently and also for professional theatre makers. For all our participants, we provide a non-pressurised approach to learning, allowing people the space and time to develop in their own unique way. Alex’s workshop was a great insight into the image-fuelled world of an actor. Especially for directors looking for a simple yet powerful language to communicate with actors.” Living Pictures is . . . a richly woven book on art, artists, the conditions of their mutual pervasion in times of endurance.

Please use this feature on your own historical photos and not on photos featuring living people without their permission.” A session with Denise Gabriel is truly inspiring. I saw swift and significant changes in actors and a real sense of craft. A wonderful teacher.” A haunting and magnificent debut fiction collection. . . . This beautiful attempt to reconstruct the lives of the lost, blended with an account of a new life built from the rubble, deserves a wide readership.Our stakeholders include the students from the Canolfan Elfed Unit at Queen Elizabeth High School, who visit the land most days of the week learning new skills relating to tools and gardening, cooking and enjoying the outdoors. Set in places as diverse as San Francisco, small-town Massachusetts, Siberia, and (of course) Leningrad–Petersburg, these stories come forward as searchingly intimate and by turns tender, sensuous, macabre, absurd, ambivalent, yet always immensely and movingly vulnerable.

Don’t shy away from using darker paint colours in a small living room. Dark colours on walls can create a receding effect so that walls seem further away, visually enlarging the space. The benefits so far have been immense for our participants, sometimes providing the highlight of their educational week.

Create a calm and cosy living room scheme by painting walls and woodwork to match in a dark, dusky shade. Warmer tones feel enveloping and rich and are ideal for living spaces where we want to relax and cocoon ourselves away. Their work is based on a deep and intuitive insight into the varying tools young directors might need to develop and grow.” As narrator and guide. . .Barskova makes the unprocessed grief come alive. She spins it into non-narrative and non-linear poems and prose, a pastiche which mimics the very nature of traumatic memory: disassociated and halting. There are up to two million people in the UK living with severe sight loss, including 20,000 children. One in six of us will become blind or partially sighted by the time we reach 75. Blind and partially sighted people face constant challenges, for children they can’t take part in the same activities as their peers and siblings and often feel excluded, and in later life sight loss can be linked to increasing isolation and depression. Living Pictures is a highly poetic book about memories of a Soviet childhood and a reinvention in the USA, with interludes of a choir of voices from St. Petersburg. Polina Barskova’s prose elegantly joins all the genres to create a new narrative form.