Kirkwall

The Price of Fish: Kirkwall. Oil on canvas, 90cm x 90cm.

A trawler in Eyemouth harbour, a fair way from its home port.

I never set out for this to be a series when I started with a dredger in Berwick harbour, but I think this is the twentieth fishing boat portrait I've done. I don't seem to be getting tired of it, either, as I've another one on the way.

New Years Eve, Head in His Hands

And what expresses seasonal renewal better than a bloke with no head on a big green horse?

Happy New Year!

Festive

The captain and crew of HMS Ermintrude come over all festive.

Happy Christmas to you all, however you'll be spending it. 

Elliottness

"Sir" Thomas Elliott, keyboard player of The Elliott Knights, a beat group that went a bit psychedelic in about 1967.

If the Face Fits

Back on the Holbein trail again; Lady Lister, Misfit fan.

Colinton Firrhill

Colinton Firrhill. A man made for widescreen and Technicolour.

Gorgie & Drem.

The well-waxed eyes and piercing moustache of Drem Gullane, who played a laird in eighty-three Hollywood films between 1947 and 1965. Currently living in the Athelstaneford area.

Plus Gorgie Dalry, the Pittenweem Joan Crawford.