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Here's a new piece from Richard Purden! He's ace!
LINK

Lisle on TV

Here I am outside the STV Studios where I had been giving a rather uncomfortable piece to camera to promote the new exhibition!

Be there or be square

Here is your invitation to the show of the year!

And here's a poem by Seamus Heaney titled Personal Helicon

As a child, they could not keep me from wells 

And old pumps with buckets and windlasses. 

I loved the dark drop, the trapped sky, the smells 

Of waterweed, fungus and dank moss. 

One, in a brickyard, with a rotted board top. 

I savoured the rich crash when a bucket 

Plummeted down at the end of a rope. 

So deep you saw no reflection in it. 

A shallow one under a dry stone ditch 

Fructified like any aquarium. 

When you dragged out long roots from the soft mulch 

A white face hovered over the bottom. 

Others had echoes, gave back your own call 

With a clean new music in it. And one 

Was scaresome, for there, out of ferns and tall 

Foxgloves, a rat slapped across my reflection. 

Now, to pry into roots, to finger slime, 

To stare, big-eyed Narcissus, into some spring 

Is beneath all adult dignity. I rhyme 

To see myself, to set the darkness echoing. 

And

I just found out that the plural of fox is a skulk

That is all

XD&L

Norrie Nails It!

Seeing as it was a gloriously sunny day here in Edinburgh, I decided to take a break and popped up to UnionGallery. Alison and Rob have curated what is perhaps their best show yet. Norrie Harman's work is something else! You must go see this!
Here's a link to the gallery LINK and here's a darn fine review LINK

Here are four painters discussing the show

Me, Gareth Beare, Alison Auldjo and Trevor Jones

That is all

D&L

Leda Says...

WATCH THIS SPACE FOR NEWS ABOUT THE UPCOMING UNIONGALLERY EDINBURGH SHOW!

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Tired

Working on this and three other paintings for the show in July. Tired. Stressed. Bah!

That is all

D&L