If you fancy being joyfully bewildered, then put a suitcase of peyote into the boot of your convertible Chevy and head out into the Nevada desert with Ralph Steadman... Alternatively, get yourself up to Scotland for 'part deux' of The Joyful Bewilderment International Art Exhibition. Housed within the cool corridors and rabbit holes of Analogue Books in Edinburgh, there's a feast of insanely talented illustrators to fill you up with bewilderment, joy and possibly envy (if you're an illustrator).

The Joyful Bewilderment is an exhibition of paper-bound thoughts, visionary conceptions and visual feasts. The exhibition's curator and Stranger contributor, Simon Peplow explains. "The artists in the show all share an essential motivation to explore the possibilities of enhancing everyday life by making magic from the mundane. The works in the show utilise modest and direct means including works in pencil, paint and ink along with photographic works, which record and celebrate everyday happenstances. All the artworks express what could be termed a 'hope-tinged anxiety'. As such, in various ways, the works offer a subconscious social commentary on the uncertainty of the times we are all living in."

Part One of the Joyful Bewilderment was held at London's Rough Trade East and was a raging success. We featured the exhibtion and spoke in-depth with ringleaders Simon Peplow and Marcus Oakley in our LICK zine back in November - you can read the piece online here.

Show runs from 28 March - 28 April.
Opening Times: Monday - Saturday, 10am - 5.30pm

Analogue Books
102 West Bow
Edinburgh