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Jan Patience

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‘You’re only as good as your last trick,’ (so said my late mum, and I’ve found no reason to disagree). Scottish journalist and art lover. Writing Book Two. Founder member & former co-chair Women in Journalism Scotland

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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
My dear pal. open.substack.com/pub/airtsand...
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For Paula
My no-nonsense gal pal
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Scottish Women and the Arts Research Network @swarnetwork.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
We are now on Bluesky! Keep an eye on our socials in the coming months for exciting projects, including our participation in the #RSA200 celebrations with @royalscottishacad.bsky.social and our key partners. 📸 Dorothy Johnstone, Marguerites, 1912. RSA © The Artist’s Estate.
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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Happy Autumn Equinox 🍂✨ 'Autumn Equinox' by Joyce W. Cairns (b.1947) © the artist. 📷 Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
Surreal painting featuring intertwined swans with elongated necks amidst abstract organic shapes and muted earthy tones.
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Thanks to Airts & Pairts, I can indulge my niche interest in long-dead mid-20th century women artists. This Substack post, however, has had a lot of views since I posted it, so it feels like I'm not alone. Miss Dick was, I feel, an EXCELLENT WOMAN. airtsandpairts.substack.com/p/jessie-ale...
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
This is what social media is for…
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David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Angus Neil was a lifelong friend of Joan Eardley. His work includes a significant group of pastels from Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums @abdnartmuseums.bsky.social - the first collection to share its entire works on paper holdings with @artukdotorg.bsky.social artuk.org/discover/cur...
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20th Century spotlight: Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums: Pastels by Angus Neil | Art UK
Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
My latest Airts & Pairts is about being 'in the room' at Fidra Fine Art in Gullane, East Lothian with artist @bourbonandwolfe.bsky.social - at the same time as Waterland, her brilliant and wide ranging new collection of work. open.substack.com/pub/airtsand...
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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Artist in focus 👩‍🎨 'Margot Sandeman: imbuing the Scottish landscape with a strange mysticism' by @janpatience.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/1j7XiO7 'Bramble Picking II' by Margot Sandeman (1922–2009) © the artist's estate. 📷 East Dunbartonshire Council
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Margot Sandeman: imbuing the Scottish landscape with a strange mysticism | Art UK
Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
At Edinburgh’s Blackwelll Bookshop last night to usher Martin MacIntyre’s A Summer Like No Other, into the world on stage two of its journey. The novel was first published in Gaelic as Samhradh ’78. During a Q&A with Marion Sinclair @publishingscotland.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 luath.co.uk/products/a-s...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/04/2025
LS Lowry painting sold to Guardian literary editor for £10 could fetch £1m
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LS Lowry painting sold to Guardian literary editor for £10 could fetch £1m
Rare early work Going to the Mill is to be auctioned after remaining in the Wallace family since 1926 When LS Lowry sold one of his earliest paintings to the literary editor of the Manchester Guardian in 1926, he had an immediate change of heart. Arthur Wallace had edited a supplement for the Guardian to accompany a civic week organised by Manchester city council in October 1926, and featured three paintings by the then struggling artist. Continue reading...
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Great story by @libbybrooks.bsky.social #LyonAndTurnbull
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
On 25.03.25, Women in Journalism Scotland is hosting: “What is Substack and why is it the future?” WiJS co-chair Anna Burnside, will be joined by Sam Baker, Fiona Gibson & Lucy Sweet to find out how they use Substack… Tickets £5 (members) & £7.50 (non-members) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-is-su...
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What is Substack and why is it the future?
Join Sam Baker, Fiona Gibson and Lucy Sweet to find out how they use Substack and why it's such a great platform for building a brand.
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The media reaction to the death of the Scottish artist Jack Vettriano last week - in which I played a small part - got me thinking. Link to read my latest Airts & Pairts Substack post below: ⬇️ airtsandpairts.substack.com/p/everyones-... (That’s me in my French Lieutenant’s Woman art critic guise)
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
@danigaravelli.bsky.social
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
“The red represents the women’s blood, the grey the ashes left when they were burned & the pink the tape used to tie up legal documents.” Read Dani Garavelli @heraldscotland on the new Witches of Scotland tartan, designed by Prickly Thistle’s Clare Campbell. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2493734...
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I’m not a great one for Valentine-ing, but I remembered taking this photo of street art in Brussels in the wee small hours during a press trip to Belgium. The date on my phone says February 2016. Funny how - of all the art I’ve seen in the last ten years - this image stood out in the crowd.
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Now seems like a good time to share this series I made about how writers construct 'truth'. I look at memoir, novels and autofiction and talk to a host of incredible people including Olivia Laing, @sathnam.bsky.social and @jennashworth.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Whose Truth Is It Anyway?
Writer and broadcaster Damian Barr explores reality, truth and fiction in literature.
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
We're living George Orwell's 1984: IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I finished series three of Somebody Somewhere (Sky Comedy) and, although the last episode is a totey bit winsome, in contrast to all the others, it was pitch perfect. And no-one got kaboomed (my new pet hate in a drama!) Apparently, they are not making another series, which is a darned shame.
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Because today is beyond dreich in my corner of Scotland, I offer you a Liz Knox painting, Sunflowers & Windows. ICYMI (what do you MEAN you missed it?) my latest Substack is all about Liz, poetry, painting and the complex business of writing a life. 🔗 ⬇️ airtsandpairts.substack.com/p/sic-transi...
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Faints
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Tracked down this beauty online as keen to read Joan Eardley section. @damianbarr.bsky.social - Lilian mentions the Roberts but only in relation to Scottish ballet, Donald of the Burthens, which they designed. She was a dance critic as well as an art dealer.
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Writing a life… I’ve picked up the metaphorical pen and written a new piece for my Airts & Pairts Substack. It’s inspired by writing an obituary @heraldscotland.bsky.social about the Scottish artist Liz Knox, who died just before Christmas. 🔗 👇 airtsandpairts.substack.com/p/sic-transi...
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Apologies… this isn’t a swipey post. You’ll need to zoom in, but I assure you it’s worth it! To mark Burns Day, please enjoy the wit & wisdom of my mum, with this ‘feminism according to Flora’ style Reply to the Toast to the Lassies, delivered on 21 January 1983 in Kilmaurs Scout Hall in Ayrshire.
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
My obituary for Scottish artist, Liz Knox, is in today’s @heraldscotland.bsky.social It’s always an honour - if a bit daunting - to sum up the life of someone you knew and admired in 1000 words. I hope I did Liz justice. www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/...
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Bluesky seems to be the only place to vent on such matters now. So, if anyone starts talking about their bucket lists, I’m outta here! 🪣 🪣🪣
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This, from @frasermacdonald.bsky.social, is a terrific read about the cult of Nan Shepherd. And Cults.
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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Thanks to @nicolameighan.bsky.social (A Kick Up the Arts podcast) for these great answers, covering everything from touring with Nick Cave to her early crush on a hot priest (not *that* one). Interview in print in @timesscotland.bsky.social (Alba) on 18 Jan. www.thetimes.com/article/870b...
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Nicola Meighan: My baby phoned New Order as I changed her nappy
The writer and broadcaster on accidentally singing down the line to Bernard Sumner, touring with Nick Cave and how Art Garfunkel gave her faith in the world
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Why have I never heard this old Scots word? Me a graduate in English & Scots Literature too. #depooperit
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Culture is not the icing, it is the cake… As ever, @lyngardnertheatre.bsky.social tells it like it is. The news that Bristol Old Vic, one of the UK's most acclaimed drama schools, is to end its undergrad courses, citing ‘unprecedented funding challenges’ is another inexplicable twist to this saga
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
One of my favourite Liz Lochhead poems. I thought I’d made up the word ‘pawkies’ (Scots for mittens) until I spotted it in Bairnsang. I was always losing a pawkie when I was a wee girl…
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Just finished this book by Ailsa Tanner about ‘Glasgow Girl’ Bessie MacNicol. A Christmas present from my best friend. Bessie’s gaiety in her 20s shines through both in her work and a handful of letters written to fellow artist E.A. ‘Ned’ Hornel.
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
I didn’t actually write this on a bench in God’s Own Country, but please be assured the sentiment still applies.
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Sky Arts #PAOTY 2024 proved controversial to some, but winner Brogan Bertie’s commissioned painting of news leg-end Lorraine Kelly made her greet. Me too. Here’s why… My last Substack of the year 🔗 ⬇️ airtsandpairts.substack.com/p/greetin-me...
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Sarah Kudirka @sarahkudirka.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Our midwinter's day session 'To Light The Shortest Day' at KUDIRKA proved magical. Thanks to all who came and all the artists who brought wee things to the table, from near and far. Pleased to have raised over £200 for #Refuweegee too!
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Memorial Device @memorialdevice.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Brilliant piece by Dani 🙏
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
During a whirlwind trip to Glasgow & Edinburgh last week, I also caught Kate Downie’s Conversations with Joan @womenslibrary.bsky.social about her ongoing interrogation of Joan Eardley’s paintings of Glasgow kids in 1950s & 1960s It’s on until 25 January.
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Controversial, but having seen Lorraine Kelly’s knees in-the-flesh, I’m a fan of Brogan Bertie’s Sky Arts #PAOTY portrait of the broadcaster. It’s on show at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. Lush brushwork.
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Deadline for applications for Women in Journalism Scotland 2025 mentoring scheme is tomorrow - 18 December. www.wijscotland.com/news/wij-sco...
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Remembering Edna O'Brien born on this day 1930: “We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable...”
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Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
This is an important article. Much in it resonated with me, not least the tribute to Jane Ferguson & her team at Observer New Review. They have a faith in writers & journalism that is so precious & so rare & that we cannot afford to see destroyed right now. Thank you @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Fascinating 75 mins in the company of your favourite pop stars c1984. Best bit was Midge Ure telling Bob Geldof not to confuse Paul Young with his directions to emote his line more. ‘One singer one song’, says Ure. Keeping it real, Glasgow-style. www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
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The Making of Do They Know It’s Christmas?
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
My latest Substack was sparked by reading Emily Dickinson’s poem, ‘This World is not Conclusion’. This, in turn, reminded me of my reaction to one particular work at a Louise Bourgeois exhibition in Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery in 2013. Read here: airtsandpairts.substack.com/p/shadows-ho...
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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Please do call today or otherwise donate to our 2025 Guardian and Observer charity appeal, raising money for War Child, Médecins Sans Frontières and Parallel Histories www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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The Guardian and Observer charity telethon 2024: speak to our journalists and donate
Marina Hyde, John Crace and Simon Hattenstone are among those ready to take your calls to raise money for War Child, Médecins Sans Frontières and Parallel Histories
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Boots on the ground.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
As Guardian & Observer journalists go out again on strike today, it felt like a good moment to write about journalism. And the philosophical crisis that comes with understanding its limits. Inc details of bloodbaths in both Syria & liberal news orgs. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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How to depose a dictator
No, not the Guardian's management. Though lessons may apply
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Fergus Morgan @fergusmorgan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Dogstar Theatre to tour an adaptation of James Robertson's best-selling novel The Testament Of Gideon Mack in February and March. Written by Matthew Zajac and directed by Meghan de Chastelain, it will open in Inverness on Feb 13, then tour to Stirling, Dumfries, Edinburgh, Dundee, and elsewhere...
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Jan Patience @janpatience.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Bonnie in the wood hood this morning.
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The Stage @thestage.co.uk · 09/12/2024
Could the rise of Bluesky kick-start a revival for online theatre debate?, asks @lyngardnertheatre.bsky.social 👇 www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/coul...
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Lyn Gardner: Could a new online community kick-start a revival for theatre debate?
This week Lyn Gardner discusses new social media Bluesky and if it could be a place to ignite the conversation around theatre once again
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