So much water under the bridge since our London days dear Anna! I clearly remember meeting you outside Green Park tube station and walking to your show on New Bond Street! You brought the warmth of your Gozo, my Gozo, and multiplied that tiny space with light. One still finds traces of that practice in this collection: the Anna in perennial search for beauty. But now, the composition is more audacious, the consciousness more crystalline, the hand steadier. A tiny hint of cadmium yellow and cobalt, phthalo, anguish, prussian, indanthrone, hope, cerulean, ultramarine, euphoria, aquamarine, manganese, uncertainty, oriental, Delft blue. You

But see that you are As strong as the wind And as indomitable as the sea Because the real drama of life Is in loosing yourself. Beyond the absurdities of life There must be a world Where everything makes sense And everything is crystalline. Beyond this utter madness At the end of times There must be a garden Where the mystral breeze Induces people to start To understand each other. Alfred Grech Poet Lawyer

WHILE I IN SHADOW DWELL I STRIVE TO CRACK THE CLOUDS TO FIND THE SUN ANGLES FALL FIRST. Ta Pilar Chapel, Valletta Curator Christine Xuerub Seidu “Art must do something more than give pleasure; it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit”. Kenneth Clark While there is little doubt that man today lives in an age of celebration we must admit that this is unfortunately also a time of great loss.   Scientific progress, communication processes and instantly available information remain outstanding celebratory achievements.  On the other hand it is also true that modern man lives under