Little Wing Mixed media on wood 40 x 60 cm
Tag: Royal Scottish Academy
‘Our Infinite Land’. Taking Hugh MacDiarmid’s decrial ‘Scotland small? Our multiform, our infinite Scotland small?’ Royal Scottish Academy. June/July 2019
The Patient North 40 x 40 cms mixed media on wood panel.
My Heart Always Goes Back to the North, Hugh MacDiarmid, and the last lines of the poem:
But my heart always goes back to the North,
With its mingling of fire and ice, of black lava, green fell, blue firth,
‘When all that ever hotter sprites expressed
Comes bettered by the patience of the North.”
(The last two lines are quoted from Samuel Daniel’s poem, Musophilus 1599).
The objects in the foreground reference the polyhedron in Durer’s engraving Melancholia and The Terrible Crystal poem of MacDiarmid, and originally, the biblical ‘terrible crystal’ – Ezekiel 1:22.
IAN HOWARD 
