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  Joe Davies 'The Definite Article'. Cover of Vier + Four, a collection of screen prints featuring the work of Scottish and German artists. Contact the Castle Gallery, Inverness for further details…
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  Ruskin's earthly treasures - COVERING Brantwood's latest exhibition in writing is difficult. The house's original owner, the celebrated Victorian polymath John Ruskin, famously thought drawing possesses a power of description 'greater in most instances than that of words'…
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  ArtWork uses a Smart Search Box that produces positive results at minimal cost! - THE IMPORTANCE of accurately searching online content of an organisation's website could not be overemphasised…
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  Ceramics painted with smoke – and more… - VISITING Yorkshireman Henry Moore's studio in 1969, he showed me a small clay maquette of a reclining figure, one of six to be much enlarged and cast in bronze. Asking what happened next, he said his team would do the rest. Each later valued at £ 3M, so £ 18M in total. Not a bad return on a morning's work!…
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  S. J. Peploe – still pulling in the crowds in the Artists' Town - THREE QUARTERS of the way through its four month summer exhibition, Colour: The Palette of S.J. Peploe, Kirkcudbright Galleries have drawn almost 20,000 visitors through their door…
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  The Coast starts in the heart of East Lothian - SUMMER, 1965, I'm in the Pieter Bruegel room at the Kunsthistoriches in Vienna, home to twelve masterpieces. My dad sets me a puzzle – find Icarus. It makes me look, closely and carefully. But it's a trick question. "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus", is actually in Brussels, probably a copy…
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  Stories from a Festive piano – AS AUTUMN approaches, the quest for those tunes that make you excited to come home and relax as the weather gets duller looms in tandem with the clouds…
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  Smile please! That'll be just £5 – TUCKED INSIDE Street Level Photoworks, the Glasgow based gallery in the Merchant City, sits a small golden box: the Photoautomat. Transported from Berlin to Glasgow by the photographer Simon Murphy, this vintage, coin-operated photobooth is a stark contrast to how we're used to taking photos today. There are no screens, no previews or endless retakes, just £5, five minutes and four photos…
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  The painter Jon Schueler, who for many years lived at Mallaig overlooking the Sound of Skeat. Showing, with others in 'Coast' at Fidra Fine Art.…

INSIDE: The painter Jon Schueler, who for many years lived at Mallaig overlooking the Sound of Skeat. Showing, with others in 'Coast' at Fidra Fine Art.