Exhibition in Edinburgh

 The trip to Shropshire rather knocked off accounts of other things we had done in Alloa before we went away so here's the first of two catch ups, a trip to the Dovecote Studio in Edinburgh for an exhibition. 

We went up on the train using our new senior railcards and here's a bit of the famous Edinburgh skyline seen from the road bridge by the station and yes, we did have to walk all the way up. 

The exhibition  was the Scottish Colourists in their European Context, and I'd wanted to see it as soon as it was announced.  As our moving day got pushed further and further back I had become reconciled to not seeing it, which was a bit of a downer, as I'm a big fan of the Colourists, but in the event we managed to see it in its final days. Hoorah! 

To be honest there was rather too much 'context' and not enough Colourists for me, plus we had to keep hanging back as we had arrived at about the same time as a guided tour was starting, and it was very distracting trying to look at the pictures and not be half hearing the tour leader who spoke with a distractingly heavy french accent. 

Having got the grumbles out of the way, I have to say  it was a fantastic exhibition. As always none of the pictures I really liked had associated postcards on sale except for one, and that was this one. And it's even by one of the Colourists ( S J Peploe)  and not one of the context painters. 

Luckily I had taken a couple of photos of others that really appealed 

and this was my favourite of them all, which was by the English painter Duncan Grant

not my usual sort of style, but it fascinated me. 

ION, it is still very hot but we are promised rain tomorrow. Also, after a huge push my study and craft room are both now organised enough for me to relax and actually use them which is a massive leap forward in the settling down stakes.