About Gijis van Hensbergen Gijs van Hensbergen is a Dutch art historian, food critic and expert on Spain. He is an authority on Picasso and the author of six books, including Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon, a biography of Gaudí, and most recently...
About Daby Ihsan Born in Iraq, Daby Ihsan is an award-winning illustrator and animator who has done the art work for two ISF children’s books – The Onion and Speak First and Lose. Profoundly original, her work perceives the East with extraordinary subtlety, drawing on...
Shah’s influence on my Guadameci leatherwork By Jorge Centofanti Having left Argentina in 1968, I hoped to steer my life away from intellectual activities – such as poetry and journalism – and to work with my hands instead. By chance I was lucky enough to find a...