Issue 6
In art-scot 6 we explore places we suspect may be new to many. We start in an unassuming church in Fowlis Easter, Angus, with wonderful art rarities from before 1500; then we move to Edinburgh in 1960, and look at John Houston in the period between black and white and colour; then on to Pierre Lavalle, almost unknown today, but whose light shone brightly in post-war Glasgow art; and then to Bel McCoig, a Gourock girl, but a mainstay of the Aberdeen art scene in the latter decades of the 20th century.
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Gillian Zealand explores the remarkable pre-reformation art in St Marnock's, Fowlis Easter: a national treasure in jeopardy.
Roger Spence considers birds, Fife villages and the Edinburgh art establishment while focusing on the work that won John Houston the RSA's Guthrie Award in 1960.
Douglas Erskine offers the most authoritative biography on Pierre Lavalle, an important figure in the Glasgow art scene from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Bel's world of magic, dream, and fantasy is unveiled by Roger Spence on a return visit to the McCoig household.