LIKE so many other people, TV presenter and artist Lachlan Goudie’s dreams of travel turned to dust during the nightmare of the Covid pandemic.
Not only was he unable to travel in the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin to the Indian Ocean as planned, but he also contracted the virus just before the jags were issued and has been suffering from long Covid ever since.
His joy of painting has remained throughout, however, and his new exhibition, which opens this week, is aimed at spreading a little bit of that joy to act as an antidote to the current economic doom and gloom.
