Hi Aidan and all, The book sounds quite interesting and a real odd treasure to have found. Though as you know, I am not an avid sports fan (okay I watch the...
Hello Aidan, Someday when I am in Ireland, we will have to go to a game. Several years ago when I was snooping about some geneology, I did a search on ...
Hi Karin and all, Copies of the book are still available I saw a number for sale on abebooks. Personally I don,t think any Scot or person of Scottish ...
Hi Steve and all, Yes thats a good idea, there might be a junior or schoolboy game on. I will ask Neil who lives across the road from me. he is a former Dublin...
Hi Aidan, Thanks for the wonderful descriptions of your dad and growing up in Ireland. There is no track dog racing in our area that I know of, though...
Yesterday I had a call from a friend that was an exhibitor at the Highland Craft Fair in Glasgow (formerly the Aviemore show) He said sales were dire and that...
... I was exhibiting at the Highland Trade Fair and for a change I had my daughter helping me which left me free to walk round the show myself. It did seem to...
... from the ... of the ... When I started going to the shows, most of the Celtic design was made by smaller businesses that were run by the designer. Many on...
Two booklets, published in Glasgow 1945, are on sale on Ebay. George Bain's book was first published in 1945 as a series of small booklets. It didn't sell very...
Good Evening, Steve I have the complete set of George Bain's Celtic Art series,Knotwrk Borders,Knotwork Panels,Spirals,Key Patterns,Lettering,and Zoomorphics,...
... A quick look at mine - which I got when I first started looking at Celtic Art - and I see that they are the "revised Mini Book Edition" Panels - 1980, ...
Good morning Ruth, Have you been to Groam House? They have all the original Bain drawings and plates for the books there at the Pictish Museum. For you it's ...
... Hi Stephen, Many times - as you say it is only a few miles. I am working on designs for an exhibition next year based on the Pictish stones of Ross-shire...
... I suppose if I was a little more awake I would have remembered your exhibition at Groam House. It is one of those hidden gems. Really an excellent museum....
... I can go ... artists put ... one's ... particular ... has not ... Hi Everyone, This is also true for the Class II Aberlemno stones (and I suspect, others)...
Hello folks, I also have the compete set of George Bain's six small books from 1945 - I have always assumed they are first edition as there is no mention of...
I like your new upgraded site Vitor - it looks really nice! Thanks for letting us know about it. All the best, David. www.alexander-ritchie.co.uk Tribute...
Hi David and everyone again, You could try to visit my website today and find a Yahoo message like "this website was not found", please try 60 minutes later,...
I have changed your link in the list informaation page at http://www.celtarts.com/list.htm I especially like the treatment of the waves in "Sancti Brendani ...
Dear Steve, Vitor and fellow artists, Lovely work, Vitor. I really liked the Bagad picture with the pipers and St. Brendan. It must be the season for updating...
Hi all, This is a little different but I thought might be kind of fun to share. Recently I found references to a work done by Leonardo da Vinci that is not as...
Karimac, Since i can neither purchase the book nor visit directly from my humble abode here in East Tenn. ...... was wondering if you are aware of a web site...
Hi Judy, here are a few websites with pictures and information about the work. Apparently "Vinci" means knot! Try www.lairweb.org.nz/leonardo/willow.html ...
... Twilight of the Celts Throughout Europe, the centuries-old Celtic languages are dying out, buried beneath a linguistic form of globalisation. Marcus Tanner...
Ya know, I think we've all heard this before. It seems to be nothing more than a Romantic lamentation that the old ways are dying. Well sure they are....
Romantic Lamentation!!?? I don't think so! Every time that the world loses even a dialect it is that much poorer! We lament the loss of various species of this...
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I am away from home and the moment visiting my mother in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. I am therefore checking my emails on webmail rather than on my own...
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