Misty Rivers Community Arts Council

Good morning! Just a closer look at the recent additions to our gift shop Also.. we now have our tap/chip reader working and can take debit! Thu - Sat, noon to 4

Work of the Week is Salvador Dalí's mysterious Mountain Lake (1938). The silvery water can simultaneously be seen as a fish, with a rock's reflection forming th...e gills. Dalí's parents visited this lake after the death of their first child, also named Salvador, and Mrs Dalí burst into tears on witnessing the lake's beauty. Dalí seems to have been haunted by this story, and the death of his namesake brother, whom he never knew. See the painting on free display at Tate Liverpool when we reopen. https://bit.ly/3eH2DV6

Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison. Robert ParkeHarrison is a fine art/ surrealist photographer. His work is a collaboration with partner and wife, Shana. Robert ...showed up on the scene (in a big way) a little over a decade ago, with his book The Architect’s Brother. The book was named one of ‘the Ten Best Photography Books of the Year’ of 2000 by the New York Times. The images evoke a kind of Terry Gilliamesque feeling, but with just a little bit more magic and a little less color. If Terry Gilliam took a lot Valium, I’m pretty sure this is what it would be like to live in his mind. There is also a certain sadness to a lot of the work. Many of the pieces feature one solitary man, in a black suit, taking on some seemingly impossible task. My photographs tell stories of loss, human struggle, and personal exploration within landscapes scarred by technology and over-use. [I] strive to metaphorically and poetically link laborious actions, idiosyncratic rituals and strangely crude machines into tales about our modern experience. -Robert ParkeHarrison https://fstoppers.com//amazing-surreal-work-robert-shana-p https://www.parkeharrison.com