It is good news that Josef Herman's work is to be displayed in the town with which the refugee artist had such a close affinity.
Let us also mark the work of a living artist, Swansea-born Valerie Ganz. Her studies of coal-miners, particularly the black-and-white ones, I found more engaging than Herman's. I see from her Web pages that she has since moved on to other themes, and that her work is displayed in several galleries, but one hopes that she will, in her own lifetime, be celebrated with a permanent exhibition space of her own, somewhere in the region of Swansea Bay,
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