The garden last weekend.

Had a busy week. Some of it spent working on Ken Loach's new film

The Angel's Share playing a defence lawyer in Glasgow Sheriff Court.

The photo is of the cafe at the Architectural Biennale in Venice in

the autumn.

This is a golden pheasant. Wonderful colours.

New painting

This is one of ten very big paintings based on walls that I'm doing for

an exhibition in London in the autumn.

Hampshire Art Fair

This is one of the paintings heading down to The Hampshire Art Fair in May.

Over at Jim's farm it's time to take a look at the Bees.

The day after marking the Queen with red paint and clipping her wings,

the hive needs to be checked to make sure that she hasn't been rejected.

All is fine and the Queen is busy.

Sunny weekend in the garden. Good to see everything bursting into life.

Kirkoswald

The wee graveyard in Kirkoswald is host to many of the friends

and family of Robert Burns. This grave is Ann Gillespie's.

Wife of one John Davidson better known as 'Souter Johnnie'.

Images taken in the French Pavilion at the Architectural Biennale in Venice.

David Donaldson exhibition

The Lord Provost and the Donaldson family at the opening of the

David Donaldson exhibition at the Maclaurin Art Gallery, Rozelle Park,

Ayr. This is the first exhibition of DD's work since his death just over

ten years ago. This is a fabulous exhibition of some forty paintings and

runs for a month. Go and see it if you can. There are paintings here

that are in the family collection and rarely seen. Some I'd never seen before.