Art is all around us

Art doesn’t have hang in a quiet gallery somewhere. Art is all around us. My city, Johannesburg, is an urban gallery and the exhibits change constantly. The purple collection is on view for a limited time only. Jacaranda trees in their short sweet season of lilac bloom and the blue Agapanthus are all bursting into…

Every plate has its day …

I have always loved beautiful plates. Older plates and odd ones picked up at flea markets and little bric-a-brac shops. When we lived in Gonubie, East London , there was a little antique and collectible shop on Main Road called Talisman. It was a quaint little shop filled with meticulously and lovingly restored treasures. The…