https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-48476879/tiananmen-s-tank-man-the-image-that-china-forgot In China it is dangerous to mourn the students who died in the Tiananmen Square 30 years ago today. Even more citizens of Beijing died trying to stop the tanks reaching the square. My novel ‘Brushstrokes in Time’ could
Writing about art and antiques gave me my first opportunities to write professionally. I reviewed over 300 exhibitions and for 10 years wrote a popular monthly feature on antiques in Oxfordshire Limited Edition. (OLE) This was the first one and
It will be possible to read Sculpting the Elephant as a moving love story and ignore the historical subplot but I hope it will grip readers. My Victorian polymath works for the Great Trigonometrical Survey - the nineteenth century equivalent
Harry King’s shop Deco-rators is making an appearance in Antiques on High throughout May. I’m pictured with Caroline Henney putting the Sculpting the Elephant banner in the window of the Oxford centre. On Thursday 2 May, I’ll be in
Today is the anniversary of the Shakespeare in Oxford project. It was hard work for Polly and I raising the money, bringing together the young people and organising the three days of workshops and filming but these young people
I started the day early - interviewed on BBC Radio Oxford by James Watts - flagging up the unveiling of a plaque to 50 years of achievement by the unique KOA ! You can hear the interview on this link
The Friends of Watlington Library are fortunate in their poster designer - Ross Speirs. He made a great poster for my talk there about Brushstrokes in Time. I must have done okay because they have asked me back. Its open
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/17546729.oxfords-bill-heine-has-died/ I first met Bill Heine at Radio Oxford in the nineties . As chair of the Thames Valley Art and Antiques Dealers Association I was regularly invited on their antiques phone in programme . .Just as I was leaving
Scroll down for pics. The first launch was in the former Coopers Oxford Marmalade factory which Sylvia and Gill named as ‘The Jam Factory’ when they ran an art and antiques centre there (1987-1998) Some of the dealers came as well
The Launch of Sculpting the Elephant at Antiques on High Sylvia Vetta’s second novel Sculpting the Elephant is inspired by her own life experiences in a mixed marriage and in a twenty year career in the art and antiques trade.