"Our goal is simply to point out irregularity as a device, to show the necessity and the importance of irregularity in art."
Aleksei Kruchenykh

An aeroplane flies over an imagined northern Italian landscape

John Bellany 1970s Film by W G Smith YouTube video by John Bellany Official

Thats me away for the next 29:17 youtu.be/eEtK1q2fRjw?...

Definitely, there’s a lot to it. I’ve had it on a loop as I’m working but I’m still having to stop and rewind to listen again.

Per Bak Jensen Interview: The Presence of the Absent YouTube video by Louisiana Channel

My drawing buddy today youtu.be/BxS5oipwm5Y?...

Thanks Matt, I’ve been digging out the Uist photos again

Sgura

Aw lovely, thanks. I’m definitely partial to to good water tower :-)

The Spanish Galleass ‘La Girona’ was wrecked off the Antrim coast in 1588. Only nine survived out of an estimated 13,00. Among the dead were countless slaves from Central and South America. A ring was found made from conquistador gold ‘No tengo mas que dar te’ - ‘I have nothing more to give thee’

Your trust in the world, in people, disappears. You can’t trust because you can lose…….. everything is broken. Drawing confronts the world but hides from it at the same time.

Just seeing how these look together

Psalmody

Thank you! I love when that happens. I was always very shy about my drawings and it seems strange that I would post them so much now but one of the lovely things that can happen is that the process takes on a life of it’s own that you can’t allow for.

Thanks Donna, I don’t know what to make of them at times. They sometimes seem to have a life of their own 🙄

😂 it would probably save a lot of the time I spend thinking of the right title

It is isn’t? It seems to fit anything. I’m tempted to call all my drawings after it :-)

Heavy Structures in a Landscape Setting - is a title lifted shamelessly from a painting by a William McCance and at the minute exists only as a series of drawings printed and glued to form a clumsy approximation of a book.

Lovely to be able to do the artwork for this:

OTHER LIKE ME is the next single by Bandit Country and is out on the 17th of April on all streaming services.

BBC Introducing gave a sneak peak and you can listen via BBC Radio Sounds.

There’s a pre-save via the link in the band’s bio.

Scotia Desertia

Walking the coast
all those kyles, loch and sounds

sensing the openness
feeling out the lines

order and anarchy
chaos and cosmology

a mental geography

Extract from ‘Scotia Deserta’ by Kenneth White

GENERATION | 'On Form and Fiction' by Steven Campbell YouTube video by nationalgalleries

youtu.be/bTBNYLmuUO8?...

Scotia Desertia

Walking the coast
all those kyles, loch and sounds

sensing the openness
feeling out the lines

order and anarchy
chaos and cosmology

a mental geography

Extract from ‘Scotia Deserta’ by Kenneth White

Sounds familiar :-)

The bit where she returns to Eyemouth without him is so poignant

Bellany's Eyemouth YouTube video by John Bellany Official

Helen Bellany’s moving account of visiting Eyemouth and her husband John youtu.be/F-A9g0PabRI?...

Dimming Of The Day (Demo) YouTube video by Richard & Linda Thompson - Topic

Sometimes nothing comes near this song

youtu.be/SmWuSgMgjD0?...

More offcuts and changes of direction, oh go and read a book, it’s so much more worthwhile

Scenes from the Blue Listening Party from Nichola Scrutton Listening Party from Nichola Scrutton.

A gentle note - today 6pm, my free, lo/no pressure, #bandcamp Listening Party.😊 No camera or audio chat, just 40 mins listening, with real-time text transcript of the sound world created by Eluned Charnley. Arr 10 mins early to set up captions. #sound 🎧
nicholascrutton.bandcamp.com/live/scenes-...

Cheers Grant, another excuse (as if I needed one) to post the original lyric sheet I got if Chalkie, with misspellings, crossings out, fingerprints an'all. The closest thing I have to a religious relic.