There's a reason to go into Buchanan Bus Station: perhaps you’re coming or going or meeting someone or saying goodbye.

It’s happening all around you, but there’s one place in the station that it is captured perfectly and poignantly.

Just over ether, look: oblivious to all around them, you’ll see a couple in a clinch.

Aptly, they are the bronze miracle of the renowned sculptor John Clinch.

This is his gift to Glasgow and is entirely typical of his acute sense of humour.

Meet the “Winchers Stance”, created in 1994 for Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive.

The statue depicts the scene of a couple who could be meeting – or parting.

They’re certainly doing what comes naturally: winching.

They seem enormously happy and perhaps there’s a clue on the face of the young woman, for if you take a closer look you will see a tear rolling down her cheek.

The statue was named in a competition in the Evening Times.

The winner was Susan Ritchie, out of some 600 entries. She was at the unveiling along with the sculptor himself.

John Clinch, from Folkestone in Kent, has won many awards through his sculpting career, including the Arts Council Major Award in 1979.

He has been described as a calm, often reserved man, with a humour that was delivered with a dead pan face. Very Glasgow.

His personality is reflected in his sculptures nationwide.

Accessible and populist - his own description - his work has an inherent wit.

John Clinch was elected as an associate of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1992 and became a fellow in 1994.

He died in 2001, leaving behind a legacy of great work that brings certainly a smile and perhaps sometimes a tear of joy.