Richard

Three months on and I was back at Mortonhall Crematorium mourning another death, this time my ex son in law in the same Chapel and with the same humanist celebrant who gives such a caring service.
Although Richard was separated from my daughter he had been an integral part of our family for many years and all our family were there to remember him.
It was a very hard occasion for my teenage granddaughter who lived with her father but also for his mother and brothers, but the two eulogies delivered by his brother and colleague were uplifting and produced many smiles and even laughs.

It was lovely that ten young friends of my granddaughter came to support her and at the refreshment get together later there was a long table of teenagers bolstering her spirits.
One extra photo is a collage of four of Richard’s sculptures including the floating concrete head sculpted by Richard and commissioned by the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988, a gargoyle for Paisley Abbey and a fun detail on a plinth in the Edinburgh Portrait Gallery carrying the head of Alexander McCall Smith of the erstwhile director, James Holloway on one of his motor bikes. The second is a young Richard with a young Lucy taken from the family archives.