ONE of Scotland's greatest painters, John Bellany, has revealed he is recovering from a "hellish" deep period of depression that has lasted for six years.
Having battled ill health for years, and having survived both a liver transplant in 1988 and a heart attack in Glasgow in 2005, Bellany is now preparing for two major new shows.
John Bellany at 70 for the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh, which opens on August 13, will be followed the major retrospective, A Passion for Life, at the National Galleries of Scotland in November.
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