I've posted the final eight paintings on my website here if anyone's interested http://www.fionathomson.com/gallery/galler...1=Miscellaneous

If you click on each thumbnail you get a bigger image.

I've not put any in-depth info about the paintings at this stage but I thought you might like to see them all together. It's quite interesting to look at them as a whole group - as varied as the music itself! Hopefully I'll develop some of them on a larger scale over the summer.

(oh 'scuse the fruit - it's part of something else )

Very nice.

They are all good, but my particualr favourites are 1) Sibelius, 2) Stockhausen and =3) Mozart, Stravinsky and Elgar.

I still don't understand the Bach - although I think that says more about me than the painting.

That's really interesting. As some-one who doesn't relate music to colour (as I said in the survey), I completely see where the Bartok and Stockhausen come from (although I don't know the particular music pieces, the pictures make sense to me in terms of general Bartok/Stockhausen music). I also like the Sibelius picture very much.

I love the Bartok!

Not quite sure I understand the Mozart, but I don't know the music, so maybe if I did it would make more sense!

(Love the fruit )

I love your colour palette, lottie.

If we're all choosing our favourites, my top 3 are...

1. Stravinsky and Elgar (wouldn't like to choose between them)

2. Love the colours in the Bartok

3. Bach



OK that's 4

Lovely pics lottie (like the fruit too!)

Would happily hang the Bartok picture on my wall

I love the colours - and textures - too. Think I might start a bidding war on the Bartok! Were you inspired by the Scottish Colourists at all?

I don't know if you're bothered about this, but I think you mean 'Grieg', not 'Greig' (he - or his father, I think - actually changed his name from Greig to Greig when his family moved from Scotland to Norway!). Also, the piece by Elgar is 'Chanson de Matin'.

Do listen to it, Choddy - it's one of my very favourite pieces!

Not directly but I'm very fond of them




Oops about the Grieg

But my recording of the Elgar says 'du' and also has an 's' on the Matin. I have to admit 'de' makes more sense and I'm pretty sure the Matin is singular but I was just quoting my source.

However - now all happily edited! Thanks

I love the lurcher portraits!

Love the Stravinsky. It looks like an aerial view of the Earth. I'd hang that on my wall very happily. Followed by the Elgar and Mozart.

Lovely. Bartok and Elgar are front runners for me at the moment, though it's pretty close between them all.

Yeah, I think it's just the one morning...!

Hi Lottie
great pictures. Having looked at your website have you ever spent time in Edinburgh as you look like someone I used to know there? I could of course be wrong as it was quite some time ago.

I spent a year in Edinburgh many moons ago... I think it was the eighties

My 'wild' episode ... footloose and fancy-free!!!

As I understand it (I may be wrong), in French, they are two different words - "matin", meaning 'morning' and "matins" which could either be the plural of 'morning' or the first service songs that monks and nuns sing at 6am (also a sung service at Catholic church).

So "chanson de matin" is 'morning song' (song of the morning) whereas "chanson du matins" would be 'matins song' (as in a song sang at the matins service).

a sung or said service at an Anglican church.

I've checked it out - the story of the suite is taken from the play by Henrik Ibsen and tells the story of the selfish and ebulient Peer Gynt and his adventures. According to the suite/story Peer Gynt wakes on the beautiful and peaceful sunny mountainside and considers himself monarch of all he surveys. The music is to convey the beautiful scenery and serenity but also the quiet grandeur of the scene.

So the correct title is 'Morning Mood' rather than any connection to matins.

But thanks for the info - *goes off to edit her files*

Thank you for posting the link to your pictures lottie - I enjoyed them all. I have seen other attempts to capture music in colour but nothing quite as real as yours.

That could well explain it.

Lottie if you remember a rather bad horn player from your Edinburgh days you are who I'm thinking about. I'd wondered what you'd ended up doing? Well done with it all.

A horn player who went to the RNCM for an audition and fell in love???

Guilty, unless there were two of us. Pm me if you want to know what's happened in the years since. Rather boring really.

Utterly amazing coincidence!!!! WHAT a small world! Have PM'd you!

I passed my coursework.

Not very well and I feel a little sick. In fact I may quit. I've never had such a low mark for anything.

Me inside as a person; (and no reflection on anyone else).. if it's not a distinction it's not worth doing.

I really do feel ill How on earth am I supposed to work harder than this???

I wish I had failed - at least then I would know what to do with myself this afternoon.

No, Lottie - please don't wish that you had failed.

If someone here posted that they were upset about 'only passing' their diploma in violin performance, what would you say? You're being a lot more harsh on yourself that anyone else will be - and I'm guilty of doing that to myself too, but it gets you nowhere in the long run. I know it's hard, and I know that it's more or less impossible to ignore this when it's your gut reaction but please, please, please don't be so hard on yourself.

I don't really know what else I can say, short of begging you to think more highly of what you've achieved...

Commiserations, lottie

Perhaps it's not a matter of working harder, but working differently. I don't know the exact nature of your project but maybe whoever awarded the marks was using criteria which weren't obvious to you - a bit like someone not doing so well in their music exam because the examiner was looking for greater emphasis on dynamics, or a more exuberant tempo, or whatever. So don't despair - disappointed, yes (wouldn't we all ), but when you've got over the shock, evaluate in the cold light of day what you need to do to move forward. Do you have a tutor to talk things over with?

Yes Floss you're right. It's tough being a perfectionist



I meet with my tutor next week so I will find out where I went 'wrong'.

I do feel fractionally better this week because at least it was a pass. It's a very bad thing I know but I can't help feeling a little jealous of the people who are getting distictions... but I'm dealing with that because it's a selfish, negative feeling and does no good at all.

My mantra for the weekend: I passed and it's a good thing


(p.s. Lottie is pretty much back to her cheerful giggly self really )

It's horrible being a perfectionist... a few days ago, when asked, I found myself telling someone that the reason I think I'm basically a failure is that I didn't quite get straight A's in school. We could start a Perfectionists Anonymous club.

How is Martha these days?

Now I'm really confused! Chanson du Matin is by Elgar. The piece you're describing is 'Morning' from Grieg's Peer Gynt suite.

Regarding your 'pass': don't forget that art and arts subjects are very, very subjective. I remember the very first composition I submitted at university being marked by two tutors; the marks they gave differed sufficiently that they would have put it in totally different grade bands - I think one gave it a 1st and the other a 2:2 (I ended up with a mark slap bang in the middle, which seemed a bit arbitrary!).