Bob Dylan, The Beaten Path: The Silkscreen Collection, Halcyon Gallery

In times of trouble, we turn to myths. They make sense of things we can't understand, gild cracks in logic, draw us back to our origins.

If America has ever needed Bob Dylan more, it's not clear when. He's been their prophet for half a century, more myth than man. Last winter, the Nobel Laureate gave us a new exhibition of paintings, The Beaten Path, a wide collection of works depicting Dylan's idea of landscapes and urban scenes.

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This spring, Dylan's artworks return to the Halcyon, for a show comprising of hand-signed silkscreens.

The scenes belong to an erstwhile America: diners, arcades, gas stations, motels offering siestas. They are romantic and purposefully naive: he paints what he sees, in the same clarion, wavering tones as he sings.

'Your past begins the day you were born and to disregard it is cheating yourself of who you really are,' he says. Amen to that.