‘EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY’

An excellent exhibition of this title at the Edinburgh Festival included three large paintings by Moy Mackay including this of the Blue Cabin, with words by her sister, Janis Mackay. Moy works with felt and her Moy Mackay Gallery in Peebles shows a changing programme of art, ceramics and jewellery as well as her own work.

I went there once,
surprised to find a world
away from the world;
a passageway to an opening,
as if time rolled back in that
tunnel of stone
and the traveller between
worlds
slipped out in a slower
century
where the blue house in a
quiet cove
looks to sea.