Orcadian Comic Book Artist Jim Baikie ~ with Ellen (Baikie) Pesci

Episode 17: May12, 2025 - full "flower" moon: friends and colleagues, Tom Muir and Ellen (Baikie) Pesci, have a fascinating blether about Ellen's father, Orcadian artist and professional musician Jim Baikie.The Jim Baikie exhibition is showing at the Orkney Museum in Kirkwall from May-September, 2025.Help preserve Orkney's stories by joining our Tales in the Landscape Crowdfunder: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/tales-in-the-landscape Tonight we have a visitor! Ellen Pesci, Orkney lass and Social History Curator at the Orkney Museum, talks with Tom Muir about the life of her father, the celebrated comic book artist and all-around good guy, Jim Baikie.Among other things, you'll hear about:Jim's early years: the war years in OrkneyThe post-war landscape, and how it garnered inspiration and adventure for the bairnsJim Baikie's The Dome painting (on display at Lyness' Scapa Flow Museum) and what it represented to Jim"The phony war" as experienced from London, contrasted with what was happening in Orkney at that timeWhat washed up on the shores of Hoy that changed the course of Jim Baikie's life?Where do science and art meet?How poor families in Orkney used to be discouraged from attending art college, and how Jim Baikie overcame that early evilThe "jaw harp" and getting started in the music sceneJim meets Wendy: "sex on legs!"Bonus: Ellen shares a genuine 1970s recipe for Potato Jane!The modern disturbing fashion for changing historyJim and Wendy's early married life; the Cyprus and London years"Ready, Steady, Win!" and running from screaming teenagersJim's musical life, the opportunities he had and the folk he met: Eric Clapton, Screaming Lord Sutch, Brian Jones, John Ford, Jimmy Hendrix, The Eagles, The Kinks, Deep Purple, Spike Milligan, Santana, Jack Bruce ...The Baikies return to OrkneyJim's father, and his strong link with Hoy and the Scapa Flow MuseumJim's avant garde idea (at the time) of remote workingComic book art at last: doing what he loved and being able to feed his familyThe wisdom to know the life that will make you happyThe full family circle at the Scapa Flow Museum, HoyLinks:An article that Tom wrote for an earlier Jim Baikie exhibition, with photos can be found here: https://www.orkneymuseums.co.uk/orkney-artist-jim-baikie/The Jim Baikie Facebook page, tended by his family: https://www.facebook.com/taucetiorkneyShow notes: https://www.orkneyology.com/orkneyology-podcast-show-notes.html#episode17Orkneyology Press books: https://shop.orkneyology.com/collections/orkneyology-press-books/booksOrkneyology on Youtube: (Tom's Orkney stories collections) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b54G57-vLc&list=PLzYF_h_h5O1GsxP7DuhKGKQ8oEfSp-AxzTales in the Landscape Crowdfunder: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/tales-in-the-landscape Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.