For many of us, we will automatically gravitate towards fiction and the best-selling charts when we're perusing a book shop. We'll not pause for a moment to even think about finding a book of poems... unless maybe for a gift... a coffee table book... or a comical one for the downstairs loo. We thought it may just be us, but we were encouraged to listen to Ariel and to find that she too had felt this divide between the world of novels in contrast to poetry. It got us thinking, why is it that we feel this disconnect to poetry? ...
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Ahead of The Merit Club's first Life Drawing Class, this Wednesday 18th October, we thought we would treat you to some inspiring nuggets of artistic wisdom, with a few tips and pointers of how to make the most of your drawing skills.
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Toronto-based artist Callen Schaub invites CBC Arts into his studio to reveal the fascinating ways in which he uses swinging troughs, paint can pendulums, and bicycle parts to create abstract paintings.
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