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By Hole Ousia Posted on December 15, 2025December 15, 2025

The onslaught

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

Categories: Folk worth talking about, sportTags: Art, artists, folk worth talking about, Guernsey, London, Photography, sport, WWI
By Hole Ousia Posted on December 15, 2025

Gilbert Holiday

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:

Categories: Folk worth talking about, sport, Time passesTags: Art, artists, Billiards, folk worth talking about, Gilbert Holiday, sport, war, WWI
By Hole Ousia Posted on December 14, 2025

E K P H R A S I S

Categories: Classification of mental illness, Medical humanities, Two culturesTags: Art, arts, ekphrasis, humanities, language
By Hole Ousia Posted on December 1, 2025

The Creative Cell

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

Categories: Folk worth talking about, ScotlandTags: Art, artists, arts, Charles Fulford, Hugh MacDiarmid, social maverick, The Creative Cell
By Hole Ousia Posted on November 4, 2025

POETRY + TRUTH

Categories: Philosophy, Poems, Two culturesTags: Art, kindness, Liberty, Peter Scott-Gordon, Peter's poems, poems, poetry, two cultures
By Hole Ousia Posted on October 16, 2025October 16, 2025

No remedy near at hand

An edit from an old newspaper report superimposed on a painting of Cornton farm, Bridge of Allan, by Peter Scott-Gordon.

Categories: Medical humanities, Two culturesTags: Art, Bridge of Allan, gentle gardener, humanities, overmedicalisation, paintings, Peter Scott-Gordon, prescribed harm, two cultures
By Hole Ousia Posted on August 20, 2025

Drawing No. 9

In Two Culture Street.

Categories: Medical humanities, Two culturesTags: Art, Peter Scott-Gordon, science, The Rebel antiquary, two cultures
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 23, 2025July 24, 2025

Landscape Artist of the Year

Today we joined spectators of the filming of Landscape Artist of the Year. This was at the Falkirk Wheel. Here are a few of my photographs:  

Categories: Architecture, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 2025, Art, artists, canal, Falkirk, paintings

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