A FORMER professional footballer from Melksham has raised a massive £14,700 for the Ben Saunders Foundation to support children and young adults with cancer across the UK. Matthew Bound, 48, who now lives near Swansea, completed a marathon challenge called thebeastforben, which required him to run the same amount of miles each day as the day of the month. In all, he completed a total of 465 miles running around the roads and lanes near his home on the Gower peninsula in Glamorganshire. He finished thebeastforben with help from British Lions rugby players Ryan Jones and Shane Williams and to date has raised£14,700 for the Ben Saunders Foundation.
A FORMER professional footballer from Melksham has raised a massive £14,700 for the Ben Saunders Foundation to support children and young adults with cancer across the UK. Matthew Bound, 48, who now lives near Swansea, completed a marathon challenge called thebeastforben, which required him to run the same amount of miles each day as the day of the month. In all, he completed a total of 465 miles running around the roads and lanes near his home on the Gower peninsula in Glamorganshire. He finished thebeastforben with help from British Lions rugby players Ryan Jones and Shane Williams and to date has raised£14,700 for the Ben Saunders Foundation.
More than 20 gem show events will be postponed by 10 weeks in the hopes that the pandemic will be better under control by then.
Lowell Carhart, of the 22nd Street show, advised the mayor and City Council that the events will move from Jan. 30 through Feb. 14 to April 7 through 25.
âEven though most shows have received their event waivers, it is the case that Americaâs/Arizonaâs increasing infection and hospitalization rates now make the original dates untenable,â he said in a note to vendors. âFor that reason, we anticipate that Pima County will rescind all the waivers in the coming days.â
Dec. 15, 2020
This week’s picks include an artist who creates playful and graphic airbrushed paintings with darker undertones; women who are depicted pumping breast milk while listing their fears; and an artist whose manipulated clay forms match her own body weight.
Ben Sanders at Ochi Projects
Ben Sanders, “Opium Poppies with Razor Blades,” 2020. Image courtesy of the artist and Ochi Projects.
At Ochi Projects in Mid-City, Ben Sanders’ colorful paintings make a vibrant statement. Flowers splash across the graphic and airbrushed works, petals and stems coiling into complex configurations. Sanders’ graphic style recalls Memphis design (think Peter Shire) or perhaps a beachy tropical shirt from the 1980s he’s not afraid to playfully arrange colors and patterns to create ecstatic compositions, all while maintaining razor-sharp edges and seamless gradients. While delighting in these details, the symbology of the work begins to softly emerge: razor blades are echoed thro