Need vs Desire By Robert Wilson As a creative it is impossible to get away from the feeling that you need to achieve something to be successful. Perhaps for a film maker it’s to have a film on the big screen or to win an award. For me as a photographer it’ Clydesider Editor • Creative
Clydesider Creative - Allyson Johnson Interview by Jenny Watson Allyson is a local artist who enjoys the creative freedom of expressing her talents and skills through various genres of paintings. She creates a wide range of work from landscapes to portraits and also paints commissions. Q. How did you get into art? A. I took Clydesider Editor • Creative
Graphic Dreams By Jenny Watson As kids we dream of being astronauts travelling to space, scoring the winning goal for our favourite team or writing a comic book. Very rarely we get to follow our dreams into adulthood. But David Cranna from Alexandria, has kept his childhood dreams alive, penning a graphic Clydesider Editor • Creative
Clydebank Can Sponsored Editorial Clydebank Can is a Community Links Scotland project, funded for two years by the Scottish Government’s Investing in Communities Fund. This new project aims to bring people together to create a more vibrant and socially and economically active Clydebank town centre. We believe that small scale community-led Clydesider Editor • Issue 15
https://clydesider.org/2021/05/07/peer-support-and-me/ Peer Support and Me By Emily Fraser Something brilliant happens when a person with mental health challenges, who has spent a lot of time fearing or hearing that they are different, inadequate, or a problem, discovers that all their exact life experiences – the inner struggles they work hard to overcome and to live with Clydesider • Mental Health
https://clydesider.org/2021/05/05/a-book-and-two-tins-of-food/ A Book and Two Tins of Food Words & Photos by Sarah Ann Dillon The time: a Saturday at the beginning of lockdown. The place: my kitchen. I have always been a great lover of books and read every day. Something. A novel, a magazine article, a poem, the back of the cornflakes packet. Anything, you get Clydesider • Mental Health