LANDMARKS: BORDER VOICES paintings and poems by Alexander Moffat, Ruth Nicol & Alan Riach

Portraits by Alexander Moffat, landscapes by Ruth Nicol and poems by Alan Riach, centred on the Scottish Borders and the work of Hugh MacDiarmid, the music of F.G. Scott and the art of William Johnstone.

Hugh MacDiarmid once argued that Scotland’s greatest literature has always sprung from the Borders, with the Ballads soaring from their landscapes into the highest reaches of the human imagination. Walter Scott, Burns, from Stevenson to John Buchan, the Borders are possessed by literature. And more: the music of Francis George Scott and the paintings of William Johnstone both draw distinctive qualities from the Borders, the landscapes, the people, and the language of the people – how people speak and sing: ‘Border Voices’.

This exhibition is a celebration in paintings and poems of these great artists in their various ‘favoured places’: MacDiarmid’s Langholm and Brownsbank, Scott’s native Hawick and Johnstone’s Selkirk and his farming land.

The ‘Border Voices’ celebrated in this major exhibition of work by Moffat, Nicol and Riach, three of Scotland's most brilliant contemporary artists, are a colourful affirmation of the Borders themselves. Hawick, Langholm and Selkirk are the essential hinterlands, the deep sources for Hugh MacDiarmid, F.G. Scott and William Johnstone.

See Live Borders website for opening times.