How to paint the sea? It has to be as mysterious a process as writing about it. How to find the right words, not overdo it? How to paint how big it is?
Tag: Philip Hoare
Book of essays and art, RADICAL FAUNA, is out today
From today the “Radical Fauna” is available as a free e-book. Please, download, read, and share with young minds and rebellious souls to change the world back to beautiful.
Review: “Albert & the Whale” by Philip Hoare
I have to admit that for a long time I was afraid to read it. I learned to swim after reading Philip Hoare’s previous book. What would be waiting for me now?
“Albert and the Whale” by Philip Hoare
Sea comes back closer again, ice melts, and a silver cover appears. There are not so many books that I am afraid to begin because who knows where will I become stranded this time. “Albert and the Whale” by Philip Hoare is published in March, 2021.
Henry Beston Notices a Winged Visitor upon Cape Cod on a September Morning
In September 1926 Henry Beston went to his new summer house on Cape Cod for a couple of weeks but stayed there for a year. It resulted in a book.
Philip Hoare on Swimming at Night in the Sea
“Every swim is a challenge to my mortality and my stupidity. They become ever more extreme with every season and every place,” says Philip Hoare. He swims before dawn.
Quotes About Moon, Stars, Darkness and Sea from Books in the Sea Library
“The sea begins with the stars,” wrote Charlotte Runcie. More words about the night sky and moon and sea from Henry Beston, Emily Brontë, Iris Murdoch, Tove Jansson and others.
Beautiful Quotes About the Sea from Books in the Sea Library
Virginia Woolf, Anton Chekhov, Rachel Carson, Herman Melville, Iris Murdoch, Oscar Wilde, Mary Oliver, Tim Winton, Albert Camus, Chloe Aridjis and other writers about the sea.
Review: “Ship to Shore: Art and the Lure of the Sea”
“Ship to Shore: Art and the Lure of the Sea” is a monograph, a book of conversations with selected international artists whose work is connected to the sea. In sixteen intimate interviews with curator and book’s editor Jean Wainwright artists reveal how their works came to be and what the lure of the sea means to them.
Six Questions: Philip Hoare about the Sea and Swimming
My interview with British writer Philip Hoare, author of “Leviathan, or the Whale”, “The Sea Inside” and RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR, I did for The Island Review. You can borrow these books from the Sea Library.
The Island Review: The Writers, The Artist, The Notebooks
One of the most intimate pieces I’ve ever done. I asked writers and an artist, I admire, to show me their notebooks, the diaries of their creative work. Peek and read on The Island Review.
Review: “RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR” by Philip Hoare
In “RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR”, book by a British writer Philip Hoare, the words of the title are fused together as well as persons, times and events. Philip Hoare has written many books, but this is his third about the watery side of the world. He is deadly in love with the sea and its creatures, including poets, artists, many of them drowned. When you read, you can’t help falling in water like falling in love.
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