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The David Krut Publishing office is busy these days with three books in production that will be launched in the next three months. The first of these is the TAXI Art Book Compendium, The Compendium will combine all thirteen supplements and will offer detailed, challenging, learner-orientated worksheets on South African artists Jo Ractliffe, Samson Mudzunga, [...]

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IS IT an anthill or is it a penis, the uninitiated might inquire on first encountering COLBERT MASHILE’smystifying meditations on manhood, ritual and custom.

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The book begins with a fascinating chapter entitled Home The Journey in which Pippa Stein traces the main themes in Deborah Bell’s work. They include: the influence of Max Beckhamnn; gnosticism; the idea of a layered reality and the journey of unraveling the inner truths; a self which is expansive and spiritual in nature; secret threads and revelations; beauty through transformation and exciting the labyrinth of sensation.

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During June 2000, Deborah Bell visited 107 Workshop in Wiltshire, England where she worked for the first time with master-printer Jack Shirreff. Here Bell created some new large format drypoints, and experimented with hand-colouring and chine colle.
Bell created two new prints of a small image of a lion inked in red. In her drawings Bell [...]

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