Speaking of John Bellany, the artist Paul Huxley has said: "He has what I don't have, a gusto for expressing emotional states. Everything comes out - nightmares, joy, exuberance ... his art [has] a wonderfully, salty, gutsy character."
Bellany's paintings exploded with "emotion and imagination" and are "amongst the most confrontational, humanistic
works produced in Britain in recent
history." Immediately recognisable for its
figurative content and stylistic
coherence, his painting confronted "in a wholly original manner themes such as love, addiction,
passion, death and more recently, even
serenity." Not surprising as Bellany
lived through numerous surgeries and near
death experiences. His life’s work "unveils insight and wisdom into the human condition."
Thom Cross has said that "There is deep spirituality in his work that is profoundly moving, bringing to mind Highland psalms sung in that moving, plaintive style of the Gael." Bellany said of his religious upbringing:
"The deeper it goes in, the better for your soul - so everybody's trying to plumb the depths. It's taken as the most important thing in their whole existence and that moves into secular life as well. We're not just talking about what happens in the church on Sunday but about a person's behaviour on the other six days of the week. You don't just turn it off like a tap. The depths you feel through religion for everyone in your life - it's not a question of a surface recognition of vive la politesse. So the passions run very high."
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The Proclaimers - If There's A God.
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