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Eye of the Storm
Outstanding documentary on one of Scotland's great landscape artists
(L to R) James Morrison, Eye of the Storm [Vonbek1471/Creative Commons]

ANTHONY BAXTER lives in Montrose and makes films about his neighbours.

There’s the billionaire bully and his belligerent tribe of dune-wreckers, a community of harassed but heroic crofters and a painter, James Morrison, who won’t paint people.

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