Not A Seance for the Surrealist & The Satirist
AN EXPERIMENTAL evening in stimulating creative expression was held on 6 April at the McLean Hall in Fearnan. Hosted by the Fearnan Arts Club it brought together the painter Eric Timms (below, left) and local poet John Ramsay, whose largely satirical work is best recognised over his MacCoille nom de plume.
The method adopted by the artists was for the painter to be prompted in the generation of a canvas by the poesy of the wordsmith. This, in turn and in the absence of the temporarily evicted dauber, was to be excited by the promptings of the audience.
The gathering - which filled the venue arranged in cafe style - showered ideas, titles, images or random thoughts to stimulate the outlines of a poem, whereupon Timms returned and took up the brushes in response to the poem’s gradual construction.
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As with much such endeavour there was alcohol, humour and good natured craich present to seduce the muse. The proceedings were prevented from assuming a seance intensity by a generous and protracted raffle and the busy little bar.
The entertaining and praiseworthy evening owed much to the orchestration of Art Club member Ian Macgregor and his cheerful colleagues.
More participative than the observation by French courtiers of the consummation, on the marriage bed, of a royal wedding, the event is nevertheless just stage one of the proceedings.
The fully shaped poem will be deployed to continue the painter’s stimulation, and the resulting artwork will be brought forward to a future gathering to be displayed - as a saleable item - to those who were' there on the night'.
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