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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Study for ‘Our forgotten dead are crossing the Minch again’

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

You are there and I am here - a pencil study for ‘Look, our forgotten dead are crossing the Minch again’.

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

A drawing of Lochmaddy in the last half of the twentieth century

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

‘Tha tìm, am fiadh, an coille Hallaig’

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I used to renew this book every fortnight from Ayr Library spending hours as a teenager pouring over the words and pictures. The words as much as anything, how he talked about himself, about painting. He was the first artist that made me think about art in a different way. So sad that he’s gone.

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Everyday Hymns by Goliath. A recent record cover that I’ve finished and a lovely one to work on so hopefully that shows. It’s here on @bandcamp.com so please support goliathmusic.bandcamp.com/album/everyd...

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Some installation shots from ‘Get your paper here’ at the Formation Gallery in Copenhagen many thanks for asking me to contribute

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

A drawing of a room with a bed and a chair

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Some mock-ups/ final footering around with two recent pieces

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Some pencil drawing with Martyn Bennett for company this morning youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

The Scots word for pony is pony. A bit of a reworking of an earlier drawing.

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

A solitary lightbulb casts light on a room that nobody can go into

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

An aeroplane flies over an imagined northern Italian landscape

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The Spanish Galleass ‘La Girona’ was wrecked off the Antrim coast in 1588. Only nine survived out of an estimated 13,00. Among the dead were countless slaves from Central and South America. A ring was found made from conquistador gold ‘No tengo mas que dar te’ - ‘I have nothing more to give thee’

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Your trust in the world, in people, disappears. You can’t trust because you can lose…….. everything is broken. Drawing confronts the world but hides from it at the same time.

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Heavy Structures in a Landscape Setting - is a title lifted shamelessly from a painting by a William McCance and at the minute exists only as a series of drawings printed and glued to form a clumsy approximation of a book.

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Lovely to be able to do the artwork for this: OTHER LIKE ME is the next single by Bandit Country and is out on the 17th of April on all streaming services. BBC Introducing gave a sneak peak and you can listen via BBC Radio Sounds. There’s a pre-save via the link in the band’s bio.

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Scotia Desertia Walking the coast all those kyles, loch and sounds  sensing the openness feeling out the lines  order and anarchy chaos and cosmology  a mental geography  Extract from ‘Scotia Deserta’ by Kenneth White

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

More offcuts and changes of direction, oh go and read a book, it’s so much more worthwhile

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

‘A set of unfinished drawings based on an urban myth about David Byrne’

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Twa Dugs an offcut from some recent work

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Artwork for the forthcoming single ‘Colossal’ by Bandit Country to be released 20th March. You can pre save here url2734.distrokid.com/ls/click?upn...

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Nature knows nothing of what we call landscape

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

A wee bit of this as a drawing buddy today. Tim Neats’ wonderful book on the highland traveling families and pearl fishers

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Edvard Munich’s Cabbage Field. I’m on a bit of a Karl Ove Knausgård kick at the minute. He describes the painting as being about death to him and seeing the world for the first time when you’re not there. He talks about it better than I could here: youtu.be/-0EaEf2HXMs?...

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I might have been looking at too much mid nineteenth century Scottish landscape painting

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

A quick grab of a working drawing before I wreck it and then decide that I liked it after all

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Why should I stay here, the boy racers are racing home past Carrick Carpets

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Aretha Franklin is outside the Griffin Bar in Glasgow while a train passes by in the background (some of this might not have happened)

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I am looking at a photo of Ayr Baths in the early 1980’s before the flume and the urban myth about someone sticking a razor blade in it.

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

‘Uair is uair agus me briste Thig mo amusing ort is tu òg’ ‘And again and again when I am broken My thoughts come to you when you were young’ It is from Reothairt (Spring Tide) by Sorley Maclean

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Some drawings and the line from January

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The last Gaelic speaker in Ayrshire died the year Robert Burns was born

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

It’s Robert Burns’ birthday and in there somewhere in my Michael Marra, Neil Gow, Dougie Maclean, growing up in Ayr tribute to socialist folks wandering about the hills of a weekend in the 1950’s pointing at things.

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I am scared of the future, I am scared of the past

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Brian Joseph McHenry @brianmchenry.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Scenes of a remembered intimacy set against a backdrop of bucolic indifference

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