Pictures On A Sunnny Day

It was a beautiful sunny day in Edinburgh and after lunch in the garden we walked up to town because my sister wanted to see this exhibition before it closed - Two Old Town Artists - A celebration of the life and work of Kenny Skeel and Nell Dunn* at the Scottish Storytelling Centre on the Royal Mile. Kenny and Nell were friends of another sister and she helped organise this retrospective event.

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*A striking and charismatic couple, Kenny Skeel and Nell Dunn,
were well known, much loved local artists, who lived in the
Canongate from 1974 ? 2009, and were closely involved with the
Save Our Old Town campaign. Their work covered a wide creative
spectrum: paintings, etchings, prints, exquisite pen and ink
drawings, sculptures, banners, graphics, murals, sign-writing, shop
fronts, specialist interior decoration, private and public
commissions. Nell travelled the length and breadth of Scotland,
and overseas, undertaking her very versatile and personal style of
painting and interior decoration, leaving her mark on many private
homes and public spaces. Kenny, well known for his distinctive
shop fronts and murals, was a veteran of the Campaign for a
Scottish Parliament and a founder member of the Regent Road
vigils, a ?free-thinker? and great raconteur.