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June 2022 Mailbag

Lots of chatter from across the waves in this month's mailbag! From Tanzania, Cape Town, London, Port Elliot in South Australia, Central Victoria ... Linking hands and ideas across the world through our shared interest in art.

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May 2022 Mailbag

What's in the May Mailbag? Click and you will see. Featuring items from Africa and Australia this month. We love to hear from our subscribers and followers so please send in your best painting or photograph.

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April 2022 Mailbag No 2

March mailbag No 2 contains: a painting from Suzana in Croatia; paintings by Jack Absalom, something for vintage car lovers, and stolen Napoleonic items. A very mixed bag!!

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April 2022 Mailbag No 1

The mailbag contains items about "The Hannah Caninet"; a message for people in the flood ravaged areas of Australia. And some delightful bird sculptures by Andre Sardone to gladden your heart.

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March 2022 Mailbag No 1

Items include: NFTs being attached to Picasso ceramics; more on barbed wire; more on fences including a Dutch fence!!! And Soumya Kundu has created a portrait in memory of Lata Mangeshkar 1929-2022 one of the most famous Indian singers.

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February 2022 Mailbag No 2

In Feb Mailbag No2 we have a Franklin Mint plate showcasing an Imperial Tiger, a painting of Siraj-ud-Daula by Soumya Kundu, Lots more - open the bag to see.

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February 2022 Mailbag No 1

Interesting items await you: comments about planes, "The Flying Scotsman" on a Davenport plate, latest work from Koushiki Maity, a C17th sketch of a man leaning on a fence, surfboards ... something for everyone's taste!!

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January 2022 Mailbag

We are opening a fascinating mailbag to start the new year. Items include: who built the pyramids; a postcard from one of the little Chaposos Huamanguinos who is visiting a convent in Lima, Peru; find the tawny frogmouths, and the latest painting from Tendai Makufa.

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December 2021 Mailbag

A beautiful sunset is on top of the December Mailbag - snapped in Kilmany Park, East Gippsland, one of the most beautiful parts of Victoria. Also in the mailbag: the NASA picture of the day alias "Moona Lisa", sailing ships, Armenian colours, travelling chaposos huamanguinos - and more!!

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November 2021 Mailbag No 2

Our fat November Mailbag No 2 contains Canadian road art to stop speeding cars, the art of backing a trailor. Then to Western Australia to learn more about Mount Augustus. We also have a little on fashion, and a Koren statue of interst.

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November 2021 Mailbag No 1

What a wonderful assortment of mail we have to share this month. In Mailbag No 1 we try to identify painting by an artist called Anne Newman (and it's not me!!), revisit wood working in Japan and see some Melbourne Cup Baker's Delights followed by a peep into a quilter's "office".

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October 2021 Mailbag No 2

Oct Mailbag No 2 will take you from poodles to pink ponds, to David Hockney who thinks "The world is very beautiful, but human beings are quite mad", some street art and some garden art. Lots to entertain as we continue to share all things art!!

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October 2021 Mailbag No 1

A multi-cultural mailbag awaits you. An exhibition “Bracha – Blessing. Back to Polish Shtetls” by photographer Agnieszka Traczewska, answering why Michelangelo gave is scuplture of Moses horns, the Heidelberg School and concluding with Koushiki Maity's drawing of Lord Ganesha.

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September 2021 Mailbag No 2

This mailbag has everything in it. Paintings by - Jack Absalom and Hugh Schulz (Brushmen of the Bush), Tendai Makufa, Antonio Garcia, Olympic games, boab trees, emus and toothpick sculptures.

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September 2021 Mailbag No 1

What's in the mailbag this month? A drawing class in 1930 in Nottingham, UK, urban paintings by Daniel Bodey and Kevin McKay, a John Brack painting of The Car - Triumph Mayflower, Digger's 1st Birthday and saying "I love you" with sheep!!

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August 2021 Mailbag No 1

Our August mailbag No 1 has interesting items from Africa, India, Tahiti, Australia and a range that illustrates the great variety of "art expressions" endorsing the wonder of human creativity.

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July 2021 Mailbag No 2

In July Mailbag No 2 you will see a melting building on a London street, learn a little about Edith Halpert who for over 40 years was a leading authority on American art and meet Lochie - violin maker.

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July 2021 Mailbag No 1

The July mailbag No 1 has a litte of everything - a blackwood letterbox, never seen before photos of Frida Kahlo, and photos of the solar eclipse, and ... click to find out more.

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June 2021 Mailbag No 2

June Mailbag No 2 contains many items on fine china so if this is your interest you will enjoy this mailbag. Also a little about cyanotypes and artists helping scientists.

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June 2021 Mailbag No 1

June Mailbag No 1 brings UK stamps honouring Sir Paul McCartney, more looking for emus (!!!!), a Wedderburn mural, a wonderful new art gallery on the Gold Coast (Australia) and the Super Blood Moon.

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May Mailbag 2021 No 2

In May Mailbag No 2 we post a letter in Bratislava, Slovakia, learn more about the Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney, meet land artist Jon Foreman from Pembrokeshire, and journey with Ben Stamatovich across the Australian Nullarbor. Image credit: Shutterstock.com/ inyourpocket.com

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May Mailbag 2021 No 1

A very eclectic mailbag today including street art by N20 featured, an "attention test", willow trees and the "Bat Flower" plus some photos of outback New South Wales. Image credit: splatrs.com

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April Mailbag 2021 No 2

The second mailbag for April focuses on some thoughts by Tendai Makufa and how important it is to keep close to the earth. Image credit: Tendai Makufa

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April Mailbag 2021 No 1

The April Mailbag starts off in Mornington, Victoria with a statue of a young girl posting a letter and ends with a 108 year old Chinese woman showing us how to paint. Plenty to see, plenty to learn in this great world of ours.

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March Mailbag 2021 No 2

The second mailbag features "E with Vombatus Uoo", Lucienne Rickards & her Extinction Studies project. Also more on snails (& a Pixie O'Harris find. Lots to keep you thinking about the great breadth of art in the world.

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