Month: May 2015

Journey to… Burnmouth

Burnmouth, or Lower Burnmouth to be precise, is a small fishing village at the foot of a steep cliff where the burn slices through the rock.

ECA : Degree Shows

On at the Edinburgh College of Art until the 7th of June 2015. Lots of interesting work to see as usual. My picks would be the attic installation…

Journey to… Coldingham Bay

Coldingham Bay beloved of surfers and beach hut enthusiasts, lies to the south of Eyemouth. In recent years a find of photographic plates documenting the area by John…

Lee Miller and Picasso

Lee Miller and Picasso is on at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery until the 6th September 2015. Lee Miller first met Picasso in the summer of 1937 at…

Journey to… Temple

On a May bank holiday the usually bustling Temple area is silent. The Lion… …and the Lamb. The two Inns of Court: Inner Temple (eastern part) and Middle…

Journey to… Highgate Cemetery

Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London which opened in 1839. We took a small pilgrimage to visit Douglas Adams and Bert Jansch although there…

Garry Fabian Miller : Dwelling

Garry Fabian Miller : Dwelling – at the Dovecot Tapestry Studio until the 4th of July 2015. Taking Miller’s large scale camera-less photographs as inspiration two new gun-tufted…

Journey to… Sweetheart Abbey

Sweetheart Abbey south of Dumfries, near to the Nith in south-west Scotland, was a Cistercian monastery, founded in 1275 by Dervorguilla of Galloway, daughter of Alan, Lord of…

Journey to… Caerlaverock

“the most ambitious early classical domestic architecture in Scotland” Caerlaverock Castle is a moated triangular castle built in the 13th century and occupied until 1640 when the castle…