LOCHGELLY man Willie Hershaw, and his longtime friend, artist Les McConnell, are staging an exhibition called 'Earth Bound Companions' next month.

A private viewing of Les and Willie’s exhibition, sub titled An Exhibition o Baists and Buirds, is about depictions of Scottish Wildlife with Scots Language Poetry, and is taking place on Friday March 6, 2020, at 7pm at Fire Station Creative, Carnegie Drive, Dunfermline.

Les and Willie have worked on many things and this latest exhibition contains a range of paintings and drawings by Les with some of Willie's trademark poetry, looking at some of the small creatures that are an intrinsic part of life in the fields and countryside of Scotland.

Willie wrote this poem to headline the exhibition

Earth Bound Companions

Hauf-droukit Baist, I amnae blate or feart:

Ye hunker doun aside me mang the stibble,

Ma whuskers sense a kind but bruckle hairt

That wadnae wish me herm or unco trouble.

Wanrestit Baist, you’re trummlin like a lintie,

And you’re ower fou - wi guilt and worry thrang,

Like aa your kind, you bicker, boast sae vauntie -

You think mice daft, their smaa lives ower fore lang.

Sair-hoasting Baist, happed in a threid-bare coat -

Bide in the here and nou’s contentit state,

Be lown, fearnae the futret, baudrons, stoat -

Gey suin eneuch you’ll tryst wi hawk o Fate.

Ocht - Silly Man, o futures drear ye tell!

Greet nae for me, greet anely for yersel.