Currie's latest collection, 'The Crossing', derives from his love for Scotland's Western and Hebridean islands. His love for these places, as revealed in the recently published book 'Ken Currie: Paintings and Writings', derives from the extent to which these "places are haunted with tragedy", making their vistas "all the more poignant, knowing the suffering and injustice that was meted out to the people that once lived there and were so brutally removed." As a result, he feels there "are ghosts everywhere" and "a deep melancholy about the place which sometimes stares back at you when you look for too long."

Rev Jonathan Evens reviews Ken Currie: The Crossing here