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© Supplied by Courier artist I grew up in Montrose.  A favourite childhood walk, in easy walking distance of home, was to the Curlie. As its name suggests it was an outdoor curling pond in the days before the introduction of indoor curling. The long-defunct Montrose Curling Club originally played on the Mary Loch, at Little Mill on the outskirts of the town, on the Brechin road.  The Mary Loch was drained in the 1920s and there is no trace of it now. © Kim Cessford Indoor curling is the norm now but ponds like the Curlie in Montrose were once important places for recreation.

Last modified on Thu 4 Mar 2021 17.27 EST Scottish painter James Morrison died shortly before the completion of this affectionate documentary about his life and work which premiered at the Glasgow film festival, and it’s a fitting tribute to an articulate and self-effacing artist with an extraordinary affinity for Scotland’s everchanging land- and seascapes. It’s directed by Anthony Baxter, best known for highlighting the stubborn local resistance to Donald Trump’s golf course in Aberdeenshire with his You’ve Been Trumped films; this is something of a change of pace, ...

Anthony Baxter (Flint, You've Been Trumped) follows the great Scottish painter James Morrison over the last two years of his life.

© Supplied by James Morrison Meditation on Nether Dysart by James Morrison. An intimate portrait of Angus landscape artist James Morrison has received its world premiere in this year’s online Glasgow Film Festival. In a debut screening of Eye of the Storm on Sunday night, a global audience shared the revealing insight into the life of a figure regarded as one of the nation’s greatest contemporary watercolourists. James Morrison at home in Montrose during filming of Eye of the Storm. In the film, Glasgow-born Morrison reveals inspirations behind a career which took him from the coasts of ...

1 The death of my father MY father was originally a Cistercian monk. He decided to leave the monastery though, and worked in a jeweller’s shop in Nottingham. This was where he met my mother, through the Catholic church in the city. She was working in Nottingham as a teacher, having moved from her home town of Montrose. My childhood was actually pretty idyllic. I have a brother, Christopher, and a sister, Mary Jane, and the five of us had a good life together. We moved to Chepstow in South Wales. That had been a huge change because we moved from a house with a garden to a shop that my ...