A Daphne Caruana Galizia portrait for the European Parliament in Strasbourg
"I wanted to not only honour this fearless journalist but also to keep her memory alive," says Scandinavian artist Marie Louise Kold whose portrait of Daphne Caruana Galizia was just hung in the European Parliament (EP) press room in Strasbourg.
When Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated in October 2017 it was "a shock and a horrendous blow to freedom of speech," says Kold, who has been living in Malta for seven years. But it also got to her personally, and she decided to do something. A portrait on a single copper sheet was her answer.
After the press room…