Tag: Deerness

  • Cartoon – The Wreck of the Crown of London

    Cartoon – The Wreck of the Crown of London

    Cartoon created to accompany The Orkney News article in the June 2018 edition of iScot magazine, about the Orkney connection to the Scottish Covenanters. The drawing references the dark artistic vision of William Blake. The figure of Urizen represents an aspect of God in Blake’s personal mythology. The Covenanters were a 17th Century Scottish Presbyterian…

  • White horses in the mist

    White horses in the mist

    White horses seen in unusually thick fog on a May morning in Deerness, Orkney. Perhaps the horses are sad that they don’t have much of a practical purpose in the modern world. I didn’t notice the creepy figure in the background at the time!