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NICHOL Wheatley last featured on these pages as part of a group show at Sogo Arts in Glasgow’s Saltmarket. Figures featured at the heart of that exhibition, but Wheatley’s spiritual home lies in landscape painting. In this new solo at the Grouse and Claret, near his home in Kinross, the Glasgow School of Art-trained painter takes the viewer on a wander down his Strange Path. From dawn to dusk, it’s always about chasing the light, which Wheatley does with a curious blend of heightened awareness and subtlety.

Strange Path: A Solo Show by Nichol Wheatley, The Grouse and Claret, Heatheryford, Kinross, KY13 0NQ, 01577 864212, https://www.nicholwheatley.com/, until December 6, Wed-Sun, 10am to 4pm. (Check website for details of changes due to restrictions)

her wounds with gold” she explains and this led to a painting called Fill My Wounds with Gold. In the painting, a lion with a man’s face and a roaring open maw of a mouth stands next to a naked woman in a clearing on a dark night. The woman’s body is tattooed in gold with the wounds of pregnancy and childbirth.

Like most artists, Flockhart wants her work to speak for itself but having worked as a professional artist for more

Viking, priced £16.99 (ebook £9.99) Calista is an Anglo-Greek film composer who faces a looming empty nest. In her latest composition, she reflects on Billy Wilder, the real-life Hollywood director who she briefly worked for as a young woman. We see Calista learn about cinema and fall in love, while Wilder relates episodes from his own career – including the film he made about the XXdeXaXthXcXaXmps, where he fears his mother died. His later films – like Sunset Boulevard and Some Like It Hot– took the business of entertainment as a moral duty, offering elegant tonics for mid-century despair. Mr Wilder And Me is an homage to a great director, a meditation on fame and posterity, and a slice of pure pleasure for our troubled times. It has all the wit, economy and grace of a Wilder movie.

DAN BROTZEL