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By Hole Ousia Posted on June 13, 2026June 13, 2026

Living Poems

To live a life in poems You need not be a poet! Just feel and turn that into Art [You asked me what I used those different coloured chalks for?]

Categories: Poems, Time passesTags: Art, Art in everyday life, artists, coloured chalks, colours live in me as feelings, feeling, graffiti, he cannot unlearn the feeling, Peter's poems, The hands of an artist, transience, vivendo discimus
By Hole Ousia Posted on June 13, 2026

Art is an act of daring

All this material is from photographs that I took in Edinburgh last weekend [the sketches are by AI via ‘prompts’]   

Categories: Architecture, Scotland, Time passesTags: 2026, AI, Art, Art in everyday life, arts, Edinburgh, ephemera, Ghost signs, pharmacy
By Hole Ousia Posted on May 7, 2026May 8, 2026

Art in the garden

To play ‘Art in the Garden,’ please click here.

Categories: Family history, gardens, Omphalos films, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: Art, Art in everyday life, artists, arts, Bridge of Allan, gardener, gardeners, gentle gardener, Have Fun, Little Sparta, Mossgrove, Omphalos films, Peter + Sian's garden, Peter Scott-Gordon, Rebel antiquary, The Rebel antiquary
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

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