being and becoming in the world
Special people from any era
In Hownam churchyard, Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders, is this poignant tombstone: 23 December 1874, Edinburgh Evening News: 26 December 1874, Teviotdale Record and Jedburgh Advertiser: Blindburn steading: 13 January 1875, The … Continue reading A shepherd lost in the snow
The following biography of Gilbert Holiday is provided by Sarah Colgrave Art: The following timeline is far from complete. It has been compiled by Peter Scott-Gordon from material available in … Continue reading The onslaught
Lately, when researching a forgotten but once champion billiard player, I came across the art work of Gilbert Holiday [1879-1937]. Here are some of his works:
A short film aboot Granville Lowe Paterson [1921-2004] fae Balnarge, Glenglass. He was a weel kent Inverness ‘worthy’. To play this film please click here or on the image above. … Continue reading Granville Lowe Paterson
In a local antique shop I recently came across some papers and ephemera that belonged to Christopher Murray Grieve [Hugh MacDiarmid]. Amongst this was a letter that he had received … Continue reading The Creative Cell
Tom Stoppard [1937-2025]
I came across this report in the Scotsman of 4 May 1927: In doing some further research I established that Reginald Porteous died of pneumonia in Edinburgh’s City Hospital in … Continue reading A mania for collecting tools
This is not a ‘manifesto’. It is just an artistic reminder of what hole ousia is ‘about’. Hole ousia is not – and will never be – commercial.