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Visiting Artist Struck By Anguilla's Beauty
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Art Café at Coconut Paradise Building at Island Harbour is fast becoming a centre of attraction for many. It is one of the island’s finest art galleries, well laid out, and boasts an attractive bar (tucked away in one corner), and a boutique and will soon be an outlet for the island’s philatelic bureau. To add to its attractiveness, the floor of the building is tiled with very colourful cuttings of local rock.
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Spectators at the Art Exhibition
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Art Café is currently the venue for some 24 paintings done by visiting artist Mira Aleksium. The acrylic paintings, with the theme Discovering Happiness, were done on canvas and the exhibition from December 9 to January 15 is being facilitated by Janus Group, Image-makers.
The Polish artist was recently in New York where she held an art exhibition at the opening of the Double Edge Theatre. “During her stay on Anguilla, Mira has been painting affected by the island’s endless beauty,” her brochure stated. “Fascinated by the beauty the artist translates into painting the overwhelming dazzling nature of the Caribbean world.”
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Spectators at the Art Exhibition
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She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland, in 1966 and has mounted over eighty individual exhibitions. Some of her collections are in museums in the Vatican, Warsaw, Germany, the United States, Israel and Poland. Her file is housed in the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC.
Art Café has held a number of exhibitions already. Prior to the current exhibition, there was one called Visions from Paradise which featured the work of Italian artist Justyna “Miklas” Miklasiewicz. She is known to some extent in Anguilla having exhibited at CuinsinArt Resort on two occasions.
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Mira, the artist
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Janus Pavluk, Owner of Art Café, is proud of his gallery and associated businesses at Island Harbour. “Everything is going in the west of the island; it is time something comes to the east,” he says as he welcomed the large lumber of patrons entering the building.