Back again!

Michael and I have been living in the south of France since the covid outbreak. We bought a little holiday house a few years ago and then recently added a studio to the nest so we could work when we came here. We love it here. We love it with the same concerted passion we

Ronald Farren-Price plays Liszt at the Bagni di Lucca Casino

The Bagni di Lucca Art Festival has brought into our wee beautiful town some of the most amazing international talent that it has seen for many years.  Bagni di Lucca is known for its many famous personages.  It is known for all the incredible writers and musicians and visual artists that have come here through

Exhibition of Marble sculptures from Bagni di Lucca Sculpture Symposium

The sculpture symposium is over.  The artists, one by one are leaving.  Sad to see them go.  They became like family, bonded by big family meals, heart to hearts and animated discussion.  Their works were exhibited in ‘La Cantina’ and garden in Ponte a Serraglio on the weekend in the golden ambience of a summer’s

Sculpture Symposium in Bagni di Lucca

Every day since the first of July you wander over the passerella to the Villa Fiori gardens and you hear the musical tapping of metal on stone.  The sculpture symposium, one of the many wonderful events of the Bagni di Lucca Art Festival, has seen the works of five sculptors evolving and ‘becoming’ over the

The Photography of Ella Haller Zwierzchowska at La Rondine Gallery

Colour must be the story of India.  I wanted to see more.  I wanted to be overpowered by it as you are when you go to India.  The taste of it was yummy, a glow in the light, exotic fabrics edged in gold, the haze of dust, the flamboyant twists and turns of architecture, crumbling…The

First exhibition of the season in Bagni di Lucca

The first exhibition of the season at La Rondine Gallery opens next Friday night, 28th June, with the photographic works of Ella Haller Zwierzchowska.  If you are nearby or in town, come and celebrate!  

Creating an Art Festival in Bagni di Lucca

On a late summer’s day last year, under a pergola dripping in wisteria and overlooking splendid vistas, a thought was born to a philanthropist and his friends, to have an art festival in Ponte a Serraglio.  For years we had all been coming here, and every year another one or two shops would close down. 

Bagni di Lucca’s Art Festival

Originally posted on Bella Bagni di Lucca:
Bagni di Lucca is set to host a brand new Art Festival this summer. In the sunny months of July, August and September Ponte a Seraglio will be filled with performance artists, painters, sculptors and photographers. Meet part of the organizing team. From the left…Jaqueline, Ira, our Sindaco…

The Summer Art Fesival of Bagni di Lucca

Shaping up to be a great Art Festival

Bagni di Lucca cat does meerkat impersonation

Originally posted on Bella Bagni di Lucca:
We are cat sitting at the moment. Meet Tiggy May. She has made herself at home and has decided that the view of the village from our window is fascinating. She spends hours watching the goings on from our couch. Something happened which really appealed to her and…