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some health issues and how many with any preexisting conditions ended up dead or in really life changing situations scott hudson says it does affect the brain sense of taste is a noodle function and people are being repelled from smells and tastes are used to love and finally kill the says there was already a mental health crisis before it was not enough money getting put into it and no one is a c.v. adequate treatment so some really interesting views there the next week we have some of the country's leading experts some call them and we're giving you the chance to ask them any question you like about what might be causing you in the pandemic please post your questions as a video or text of your social media the link below but no back to the tires and to scotland. there's a famous scene and the arthur wealth classic from the 3rd man where his character to flick italy under the turmoil of the brave 30 years produced michelangelo

leonardo da vinci and then a phone off i printed years of brotherly love and since then produced the character clock that's gone and having been banned by the porsche but has been moving through a p.t. to fundamental cultural and political transformation and the key point is that these are exactly the kinds of change where art and i to often flooded alex in conversation with the wonderful yet at boeing. jet are welcome to the alex salmond show great to speak to you great to speak to you now i'm looking at you who said you seem to have a pretty fair enough to stick set up to produce that your home is your your made studio why does not work. this was the hostess create a big decision we we moved to lessen this hosts of teen years ago i started a plan basically to try to get me effectively open to the gali system we did say that we were going to train maybe do it differently in order to do the same the

speech so i did you up to the back of the garden and what we do is we used as host twice a year we have a formal exhibition here. where we spend that usually there were basically people who interest and more were able to come and see the paintings and the beauty of that as i've discovered is that the seem to work within the context of a home rather than a and a gallery space which i always feel was a bit awkward people can come normally not just a lot don't always leave on an ongoing basis and that's a good selection of everything i do and in all of the videos different facets of lore look good examples of just. them on display really all the same does it i believe in corinth. in the uniform you're just back from from a spade i'm wondering if we discount the global tragedy for a 2nd as is law for you sort of a plastic endeavor is that

a benefit of being able to get peace and quiet to go mia you're painting or are you like so many professors fighting the whole thing a bit about difficult and challenging so you would imagine the lot during would have been a dream come true but the truth of it for me was i really struggled a really struggled so absent all of the other inputs all of the other stimulation i phoned the the get up in the morning go to the studio a phoned in heart and actually. probably many people that it forced me in the way and i had to ask soliloquy hard questions. why am i am if this isn't. a dream come true. what am i as an artist.

it was that it was an odd experience. as a consequence why i was able to do is to really use that same as it said to dig deep and wide it was a push then cheney area in trying to get some tame and been working with sculpture of the market 3 dimensions i don't need a couple of what i think are really quite a short piece or so that's been distorted of locked on for me the painting i can't do it every day i can do all day every day i can just. exhausted me so have a nice extra facet by extra thing that i could go to that was the thing the balance the equation for me was let's talk about their bun started. as a painter i mean for scott's my generation and i don't think i was particularly lucky either fell the subjects like art or music for that matter got any sense of

priority at school maybe a bit i was just one unlucky but all things so it was a unix perience you've been a teacher yourself of course things change now as a binocular revolution to put these these subjects for the forward than the chemical i'm sure think in the i think this is a difficult one when it comes to teaching or not because you go you asked the question what is it you're teaching. and i suppose i could answer that by telling your story of who i was the head of artisanal which is college in glasgow by the school very academic and i argued the case successfully the. art and music were an essential part an absolutely essential part of any any person any young pearson's still experience. the college went west but and they committed some some tame some money and all it means to go to

a department so weak we kicked about a revolution isn't our wishes we taught one still to be taught to hold the pencil besley hold the brush up we mix the pink not that we do this then do that then do the rest injured us and it was astonishing with then there's a generation of kids lunatic a few years and it's you know worked at what we were doing but that our generation of kids and their future were watching us and that we know what each you dislike the old draw every single one of the mess whole nonsense of well she's good our and he hasn't. we tripped up our completely with the rate train it. everybody can can can obtain the huns coke's no that isn't the same at the end of the date as being an artist you need that extra element and who do you. see that that's another question completely but my argument always course aleisha

good 100 skills unless you have some means to express yourself the keats of it is locked away novices called in this produced great after some great musicians but it wouldn't have been the obvious committee of choice for a working class liar didn't settle scotland in the seventies and eighties when or what did you put in what was the reaction from your dad the the bobbins host called when you came home and said look the same geneva stuff know what i'm off to go has your college of art committed yourself what if you can sass the opposite sastre would have been the worst engineer in the won't i couldn't get mad at the for the force to mollify understood there are different greens and i was in a room full of people who would open an ordering in and that a lot of the stuff i just couldn't get or so i should i apply with telling my parents 1st. syria the planning architect them planning up their gloucester

school and go except it's. and went back and said to my died i think it must be true that it's one that makes house of his life that i don't mess with really speaking to them and he actually said or not that's an acceptance to go and do turn country turning he said this is a big scoop. you quit our school. it was like a bomb going off i'm hopeful we'll then so race to get a portfolio together and was accepted by the taim. was almost through our school is thoroughly disillusioned i stood by the whole thing so i wanted to be a costar i decided that being smushing and enjoyed a book. the room for me was music and dedrick email our school had a record deal and i try pretty hard up for a way of of the name your band oh goodness here we go

a band called volley and the week of wonder what's the greatest band never to commercialise go. and i mean isn't band actually but i'm just saying that your style janet was for example would be kind of the quicker and she quietly and quite pushed punk. very guitar based in reaction to towards the end of the tape almost towards a can of americana. as a signal good if it was st in m. recounts. and just the new greeks basically we were having a good 1st open. which was a shame it's a shame your new book which i've seen in which a kindly sent mia a copy off. bombs that the ultimate table top of i mean they are the people we're people doing interviews disincentives all over the world to who want that on

the on the camera shot. to tell us of. there is there are so that the book well being this is something i've been trying to put together for for many years as a result exercise to rate yourself similar to biographical on a lot information came from me and basically was reshaped by our wonderful rates will go cold chain rates. but it's a position to exercise you've got you always think of yourself 'd in the pearson. almost as if you did you know. that's that's guy what did he do then what it do and then what happens. but this is at the point where i in terms of my moroccan in terms of literally are the should be able to get more work and actually this is something that probably should hearkens many years ago and it is the last came

until a moment just over a year ago an introduction. a company called bill and then in glasgow. money's in people and basically almost on the sport the sedes will do it for you and if i what they said was real difficult. they view the us as a career hype christie project for them so as you say will produce tests absolutely beautiful beautiful. highest quality paper quality everything abuse it so it's a statement is a statement of the in my 15th year this is where they are as an artist and then traditionally actually even since that was published i mentioned to the sculptures that as an ex chacha so that's the way i feel a bit sad a 2nd lane or the sun dots that's what it was at that point and it's next no one

jerk to embalm say he was thinking about himself as if he was deep shit so that means as if he was dead for the fields i don't know what all based nor deep all day it is very much alive and when you join us after the break we're going to go for some of the the themes of mott the work of one of scotland's most famous office. very mechanisms of neural plasticity that enables threats to get under the skin and to have any negative effect on our mind in our body those same very mechanisms can be harnessed for the good of the old resilience to promote flourishing. is your media

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welcome back in this special program i came to fix anniversary of the scottish independence referendum i like to think conversation with top scottish artists get it going. general you know after you're spell teacher good and you got into being not easily because these things are easy but but a big a very notable and successful artist know something of a family paintings were 100 live just the. themes that i own and the salt of the national flag of scotland who was your inspiration and what were the ones that you know major name as an artist the soto this is this is a theme which is which is and what works well and truly in my work but i remember the very 1st one that i made and up the last of the things he called the rodent. which you all know well alex should explain to the viewers the island was a painting ended up in my office when i was 1st 1st to scotland because i hope to

see it to a race course but there's a really interesting story behind the paper going to go tell it tell it to when asked you know why the saltire. when i meet that painting i would probably just escape myself as being a political it wasn't intended to be a click statement basically. a lot of this hotel because i'm scottish and as an artist you little it same for things that you know you're looking for that thing that catches your eye again and again and everywhere i went in the world but ever so photographs the songs have just. so for me it was almost a case of can you believe i can believe anybody as people do something with us so i decided i would make a spec painting the result of so felt almost 80 percent of the canvas the crew in contemporary culture has quite a glossy. connotation quick dark connotation but in pictish culture because of this so that the core makes the troll crow which

a lot since c.r.t.'s literally means hawk or to morrow so what you've got has that are leaders with an appeal to people see in the cold meat initially think that something quite sinister but when you unpack it and when you tie in with the graffiti on the wall it takes on a completely new meaning that talk was intended there for fidelity and as a city you've got different generations within it and these are all elements in my paintings make painting quick child of explored as of going on but in a row and it was the very forced paymah used to feed it and it was probably the very 1st thing a used anonymous boards with a symbolic element was without intention so that i was basically a paid thing about hope which is why i saw. another 50000000 air live

up which religious themes have been you know the famous canvas of st john noble way for example a factor were your own passable religion and that they. splash in the field. i think i'm always drawn to stories and i was brought up. catholic in a very religious boy and to my mind as a young adult i would have defamed myself of the logistics of my religious beliefs have changed. fief such on me at this point in the johnnie a jew nor go home to. the things that i believed when i was a younger man and that's the best there i can see the story of john over this as his death who won so i decided to take but it was p.t. to to go on a plane to school. to the point where the young man a boy makes quite quick different quick difficult decision and thus life choice to

pick this up point at which he made a decision to become a religious person in which they were going to shape the rest of his life the melody of religious paintings you present religious figures historical figures at a modern setting so that was a deliberate choice of words and the figures for who'd be recognizable from biblical stories or form of john ogilvy a. catholic mass. in scotland they. are presented that in modern day as a font of ordinary people. was fastened fascinated by the aspect of the obvious a deliberate choice of yours and contrasting for example were full of the it's going to be the house and the present his religious figures very much were photo back in the real or some of that they be you present them in modern settings what part of course of the game behind it change the context you change the stories

received. there are a number of paintings. on the theme of the deposition christine taking tone from the tourists. and other hudson quite seriously negative reactions to these things because almost and some respects trigger this is who is this who can you depict traced when. we think about the story in flint robes and of your own these these people and it becomes almost romantic trace been taken to improve the choice being taken to the tune the iset her seem stored in the streets the classical and you've got theories mates basically the money has to go order the body and the hook limits the streets a colossal that changes the nuggets of profoundly stupid so we international prominence and what you're left with is the role the brutality. you're known as an outstanding portrait artist and one of your strafing exhibitions

was in the the calm of games and in glasgow in 2014 where you in 14 portraits of of various paths now it is your 14 for 14 as it were. with i was lucky enough to be in the exhibition but i was also tested by the settings you gave some people could tell us about. the real lennon the celtic manager because some of the background there and some of the split of leather than into the picture and of course have the ever celtic support yourself so when bigley hardship persons were pictured with celtic manager. he was a complex character and in fact. prop or simply of all the paintings or maybe not still remains one of the most controversial you have this man standing straight to camera but surrounded by this this maelstrom of graffiti which highlights once you

understand all of it is there isn't probably milam still is the only one who can really unpack it because this was just the most often they are when she understand all of those leaders you get some sense of the man himself and the one or a few more recent very famous portraits of another sporting a hero in scotland the idea we're which has caused something of a sensation when the thought is past nor a battles been featured on this on this program is very very much iconic forgotten skull tell us about that painter gosh that's just the most wonderful ostomy until he was even thinking about it. opportunities present themselves as astutely convoluted story but basically i offered to make a painting of dorothy. to help to raise funds for his foundation i think though it was a bit nervous uproot the idea initially all that confidence the radiates. would be

surprised to know the doubts there's about a front there i think he was quite nervous about it. when did to me on. and the idea was that we were we would take the painting as a big big fundraising event in hong kong and my idea was that if we make this painting and we get rate will quote fund it will quote fund and whole goal and basically we're trying recent money sowing to meet already and he had really nor had no idea of what we doing what is the portrait until so i had to kill him what i got was this amazing series of images of this this incredible man st kermit and you can see in the quarter you see the picture painted i think in his eyes and you can see a fear that more than anything because of the cause you can see his. store says i'm basically. the shortest park with

a gorgeous soft borders landscape. i think it's one of the strongest paintings ever made up and i'm going alone myself to be a weaver. i think we did that for the rate reason we raised a fortune and the raised 150000 pounds i think and food and pins and and of course the bodies battle the famine the capture of the hearts of the nation and the robin world and to and to national and good luck to them. the. latest theme of notice than in your work is of a bally versus a surprising the part of some amazing stuff behind the scenes portraits was was behind the latest feed more for of your work. been working with done sorts for years on officially. ballet dancers and particular our most amazing teachers. if you want if you will by the way your soap opera do you know how you look at

every last stand a state a few belly dancers they are just remarkable i got to go backstage for the rehearsal of a bali called theories tourists think and mark willacy i may get something and it just absolutely blew me away and why i discovered to my amazement is i'm not really interested in the dunstan. more i'm interested in is that moment before the layoffs that slickly why restitch looking from bucks to each and in most cases beyond a dancer who is just about to go on and perform. and i actually did something on radio scotland. 'd where we spoke about been seized and fascinating and different perspectives he spoke about that he got that completely east formants beast he

talked to group the brutality. of the performance piece the white horse he got the performance based produce that screw up my cheek and it's full open grace for a dancer it's brutal tell above you've achieved both of them success though in your career you're paintings of in the galleries the national galleries and scotland but let me take you back to st aloysius when you were a teacher no let's just say for the sake of argument one of the boys or girls came along as a police of thinking about becoming an afterthought what would you say to that that youngster now who's your joke how do you get to come in your whole. practice. practice practice practice terror bombings one of scotland's greatest artist thank you so much for joining me on the alexander show my pleasure. rather than a conventional cliff today we thought we would end this special show one scotland

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