Highlands and Islands: Paintings and Poems
Fleming Collection, 13 Berkeley Street, W1, until 5 June
Pictures are usually exhibited with closed-shop segregation from the other arts, so it is a joy to find the bounds broken by this exuberant celebration of one of the oldest and most beautiful places on earth.
The show announces the publication of Highlands and Islands (Eland, £8.99), a poetry anthology (mostly 20th-century, not all by Scots) from Beccan mac Luigdech of Rum (died 677) to the present, selected and annotated by Mary Miers, the architectural historian and authority on Highland and Island culture. Her family home is on South Uist, so she brings a native passion to her subject. Relevant poems, some extra to the book, are displayed alongside the pictures; and there is also a programme of readings and musical events.
It is two shows in one.
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