Andrew Cranston

And, you know, in some very, very deep way, it was the first way I interacted with landscape in a really engaged way, you know.

So, I mean, to the point where when you saw a wild landscape, you thought, you know,

maybe i could make that the green and you know this could be the fairway you know this is slightly projecting onto like which must sound horrifying to people but you know scotland golf courses especially are just kind of manipulated out of the landscapes that are there anyway and we're actually um almost not used right so that they're kind of fairly organic more but

Yeah, golf's a great game, I feel, because although you might be in competition with somebody you're playing with, you're really playing against yourself.

And it's like painting in that way.

You're not really in competition.

Right.

In fact, most mornings I play myself.

I have a sort of complete space, really, just to think about nothing else but getting this little ball into a stupid hole.

I mean, there's an absurd... Absolutely.

I remember reading that Samuel Beckett was a keen golfer.

Wow.

And you think, yeah, that fits.

You know, when you look at his plays, you know, you say, oh, my God.

If you could live with just one work of art, what would it be?

I'm going to go for Matisse's Red Studio.

That's my choice.

We'll have to – yeah, I mentioned it to someone yesterday and they said, oh, me too.

So we'll have to do a kind of – Tell me why.

I mean, I read somewhere somebody – I think there's a big Russian collector, isn't there?