Last Sunday's special viewing at the Islington Art Society's autumn exhibition led to a brush with Award-winning film director Gillies MacKinnon and his oil painting "Nineteen Elements". 

MacKinnon, who studied at the Glasgow School of Art, is known for films such as Regeneration (Behind the Lines), Hideous Kinky and The Last of the Blonde Bombshells, and his recent television work includes The Village and Inspector George Gently.

MacKinnon is among the 90 society members exhibiting 240 artworks in the Hornsey library's Original and Promenade Galleries. Last chance to see 1.00pm-5.00pm Saturday, 22November.

Further details see http://www.islingtonartsociety.org.uk/exhibitions.html