Blanco Renaissance Museum

The house of Antonio Blanco, the Spanish painter called the "Dali of Bali", whom I met in 1993, has become an extraordinary museum in memory of the extravagance of this unique artist. He died in 1999, but his memory lives on here. At the start of the museum, you walk through a huge gate, defining the artist's surreal personality, looking like a person sitting in the lotus position. On the terrace are gilded statues of Balinese dancers, in honour of his wife and muse, an Indonesian dancer. The gardens, full of exotic birds and animals, are beautiful, and the studio-workshop remains exactly as it