Naboland and Pittenweem
by Marie Marshall
Glenshee – Winter, © Kirstie Behrens
Are you planning to go to Pittenweem Arts festival (3rd to 11th August)? If so, be sure to visit Venue 33, 7 Calman’s Wynd, where you will find the art of Reinhard Behrens, Margaret L Smyth, Kirstie Behrens, and David Behrens. This family group of artists grows in strength year by year, as the younger members hone their skills.
© Reinhard Behrens
Reinhard Behrens is the creator of Naboland, where thrown-away objects find a new life, and a toy submarine voyages in and out of an almost-but-not-quite parallel world. One of Reinhard’s finds, the remains of a teddy bear, inspired me to write a prose poem – had the bear been dropped by a certain creation of Mary Shelley as he sped across the Arctic ice in search of his monstrous creation? I dared think so…
© Marie Marshall
© Reinhard Behrens
Marie Marshall 
his way / the stick / he picked
from his Imagination Box
grandson James Hunter, ancestral Hunterdon castle,
the great-grandfather James Hunter
father of the mother
of grandson’s mother Jessica Marie
imagination play
delight of this Grandpa “B”