Issue 3
We welcome Jane Adamson as a contributor, and she reminds us of the wonderful mural Alberto Morrocco painted in 1960’s Glenrothes. It makes you want to go there as soon as possible. There's a sense of urgency required if you want to see stonecarver, Gillian Forbes' Scottish Gallery Exhibition - it finishes on February 25. But if you can't make it, there are plenty of images and commentary in Douglas Erskine's conversation with the artist. Susie Leiper has a forthcoming exhibition at the Open Eye Gallery, and Roger Spence met her to discuss her artistic work to date. Further into the future, Pittenweem Arts Festival is set for early August, and we discuss the ethos of the Festival with Jean Duncan, who leads the organisation. Finally, Douglas Erskine has written a brilliant piece about Bet Low: thought provoking and eloquently argued. It’s an honour to publish it. That’s Issue 3 of art-scot…
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Bet Low was one of the best loved Scottish artists of the second half of the 20th century. Douglas Erskine explores her work as it emerged from abstraction to landscape distillation.
Susie Leiper, artist, book-maker, calligrapher, and expert on Chinese art and culture, talks art and letters with Roger Spence
Jane Adamson excites us with an engaging essay on the astonishing mural, The Way Of The Cross, painted by Alberto Morrocco, in Glenrothes in 1964
Douglas Erskine has a conversation on the art of stone-carving with Gillian Forbes, whose work is at The Scottish Gallery in February 2023
Jean B. Duncan has led the Pittenweem Arts Festival for the last 14 years. It celebrates it's 40th Anniversary this August and Roger Spence talked to her about the Festival's ethos.