I remember the pleasure I discovered after getting 1-2-3 in place and then working out the shift-sequence for getting the 4 in place. I recall having small plastic 4x4 versions of the 15-puzzle, and also a similar version with letters. Recent discoveries and Puzzle News are here. That was in the days when Sir Winston Churchill was still alive, my bare knees got cold at school and England was yet to win a Football World Cup. It’s hard to remember from whence they came Probably from evil aunts and uncles who didn’t realise that at that age, what you might call “British-child-shoe-size-old”, that I had enough to worry about. One day I just realised that I had a few. I don’t remember actually starting to collect mechanical or ‘real’ puzzles. Since I was a child I have enjoyed mathematical and puzzling things.

This is mainly due to me getting very hooked on tracing my family history, which seems to have more skeletons than a medieval plague pit, and as many black sheep as a farm with several black sheep.Ģ6th April 2016 - It was with very great sadness that I heard that our very good friend Robert Reid died earlier today. Regular visitors here will have noticed the refurbishment is taking longer than expected. The mural is situated in central Stavanger and is visible from both sides of the harbour - making it one of the first artworks visitors see when arriving by boat.Something will go here one day soon.Gaiety, merriment and dancing, etc. Norwegian street and stencil artist Martin Whatson is best known for his colourful take on graffiti motifs, portraying monochrome stencilled figures interacting with extravagant swatches of multicoloured graffiti imagery.įor their collaboration, Chevrier hand-painted the underlying female portrait while Watson contributed his signature, abstract graffiti as the overlaying mask layer. Chevrier's work creates a new kind of hero, contrasting the fantastical heroics and iconography of comic books with the harsher underlying tragedy of oppressed female identity and the exposed superficial illusion it conveys. In her most well-known series, The Cages, she combines hand-painted portraits of women with iconic imagery from the comic book world - only leaving the eyes and mouth unmasked. Sandra Chevrier and Martin Watson created the Junction mural on the occasion of their two-person exhibition at Nuart Gallery in 2017.Ĭanadian artist Sandra Chevrier creates contemporary pop art that merges painting and collage.

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