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Tom Shanks at 95 :: Public Art Gone Mad :: Kirriemuir Revisited Artwork 193 May/June 2016 Page 2 Artwork 193 May/June 2016 Page 3 The North*s Original Free Arts Newspaper + www.artwork.co.uk Number 193 Pick up your own FREE copy and find out what’s really happening in the arts May/June 2016 It is tempting to use phrases like living legend, or doyen of Scottish painters, but you can be sure the subject would not approve. At 95, modest Tom Shanks simply gets on with the painting. Inside: Tom Shanks at 95 :: Public art gone mad :: Kirriemuir revisited artWORK 193 May/June 2016 Page 2 artWORK 193 May/June 2016 Page 3 SPECIAL OFFER - ANY 3 BOOKS SENT POST FREE (UK ONLY) FOR £20.00 (TICK BELOW) GAZETTEER OF SCOTLAND – How high that mountain? How deep that loch? Reprint of the ’37 edn. 07179 460 88 £9.99 ____ GEOFF: The Life of Geoffrey M. 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Scotland’s first bird alive or dead? to its existence, can expect to be The inspired West–Eastern June 18 - 25 lighthouse, built 1781. Open all And, while the green of the plant adds of the opera house was be pulled out from a rack (the system usually Degree Show 2016. year. Check holiday opening times above criticism. Divan Orchestra, founded by linear and spiky - totally used to store paintings in an art gallery), PENTLAND FINE ART, 88 PETERHEAD MARITIME a touch of colour, the painting is mostly a Daniel Barenboim, has given Holburn Street, AB10 6BY, The mindless policies different from the while the most important exhibits, like the HERITAGE, South Road, Peter- study in different shades of brown – brown 01224969637, www.pentlandfine- head, AB42 2UP, 01779 473000 pursued by Hamas make it musical hope to everyone conventional boxes for Draisienne wooden bicycle that dates from art.co.uk, info@pentlandfineart. 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