* JOHN BELLANY CBE RA HRSA (SCOTTISH 1942 - 2013), TO THE LIGHTHOUSE oil on canvas, signed, titled verso 60cm x 50cm Framed and under glass Note: Port Seton had a population of only a few thousand, but had more than a dozen churches, and the Bellany family attended church two or three times on Sundays. His childhood and early life were dominated by Calvinism and the terrors and fruits of the sea. That fierce Christianity of his youth condemned alcohol as well as sexual activity outside marriage, and he grew up amid a fear and anxiety of both the pleasures of the body and the threat of hellfire and damnation. He once wrote that John Knox dominated the thoughts of his formative years. ''From education to physical and emotional outlets - 'Sin Is Always In The Air' with Knox looking over your shoulder, a heightened awareness of human vulnerability and mortality,'' he wrote. Much of Bellany's work has obvious sexual symbolism and lighthouses often appear in his paintings. To fishermen and seafarers a lighthouse usually warns of danger but can also be a familiar landmark to help navigate the journey home.