Category Archives: Artists

Events Season

Posted on September 5, 2022 by douglasthompson

Not to be confused with Event Horizon, but yes, like the proverbial buses all arriving at once again, autumn is bringing with it an unusual number of public speaking engagements, as you can see from my recently updated Events page. … Continue reading →

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A Productive Summer

Posted on October 29, 2021 by douglasthompson

Although I scarcely ever make more than a handful of beans out of it, 2021 has in fact been a productive and successful year on the writing front. It could even be that I am entering a new phase. The … Continue reading →

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Minerva’s Oven

Posted on July 11, 2021 by douglasthompson

“PASTEL WITH FLYING SNAKE AND VOLCANO.” It’s a fairly anemic title, isn’t it? It’s the makeshift title I had to invent for a pastel drawing by my late brother Ally, which my nephew Feargas and I discovered to our surprise … Continue reading →

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What The Spaceman Said

Posted on December 14, 2019 by douglasthompson

I’ve noticed on Earth nobody wins arguments nobody loses them yet opinions change This is mysterious I’ve noticed everybody bickers with their neighbours over where their trash cans sit and yet long for world peace This is also mysterious I’ve … Continue reading →

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Ally Thompson Exhibition

Posted on December 13, 2018 by douglasthompson

In the two years since the untimely death of my brother Ally Thompson, I have been preparing a retrospective exhibition of his work, which opens next month at the Lillie Art Gallery in Milngavie, Glasgow, G62 8BZ, from 12th January … Continue reading →

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The Suicide Machine

Posted on November 11, 2018 by douglasthompson

Copies of my latest book “The Suicide Machine” have just arrived from Dusseldorf from the German publisher Zagava. In terms of format, the book occupies that liminal territory between short story collection and novel, much as my first book “Ultrameta” … Continue reading →

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Arrowhead

Posted on September 10, 2018 by douglasthompson

Where is it the dead go? When I look at the moon or an aeroplane flying overhead I think of my artist brother in his white trousers and best distressed leather jacket heading off to some event better than any … Continue reading →

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Murray Robertson

Posted on October 24, 2011 by douglasthompson

Sometimes, something you see or hear once can haunt you for decades to come and never quite leave your mind. So it is for me, with the early work of Murray Robertson. Of all the Scottish artists featured in this … Continue reading →

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Heather Nevay

Posted on August 7, 2011 by douglasthompson

It’s high time we featured a female artist on this ongoing series on Glasgow painters… and what an artist. Heather Nevay’s work depicts a dreamlike/nightmarish world of childhood picture books gone wrong… fragmentary narratives point towards dramas and terrors that … Continue reading →

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Hugh Byars

Posted on July 16, 2011 by douglasthompson

In our age of conceptualism and disingenuous sarcasm, when students seem to emerge from Glasgow School of Art every year without even the most basic drawings skills, Hugh Byars is that rarest of things: a real artist, a real painter. … Continue reading →

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