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2022-03-23

Cutey, flirty, horkney Ha Ideun

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2022-03-19

Can someone makes this as Childe version? 😂😂 We need new horkney CH meme

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2022-03-17

The stoor worm, or Mester Stoor Worm, was a gigantic evil sea serpent of Orcadian folklore, capable of contaminating plants and destroying animals and humans with its putrid breath. It is probably an Orkney variant of the Norse Jörmungandr!

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2022-03-17

1472 Orkney & Shetland become integrated parts of Scotland as a result of the marriage (& subsequent dowry) between James III and Margaret of Denmark.

Willem Blaeu's map (1654) of Orkney & Shetland (public domain via commons & NLS).

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2022-02-20

In 2019, a 2,000-year-old seal tooth pendant was found at an ancient site in Orkney where the seals still sing 🦭

Sound like a fairy tale? Find out how folklore can help us interpret the past and unearth new stories: https://t.co/dRtDsSoMO3

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2022-02-11

The mythology of the Orkney Isles tells of the Selkies, a race that looked like seals but could shape-shift into handsome men who would seek women to seduce. If a woman went missing the time if the ebb tide, it was said that a Selkie had taken her to his watery domain.

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2022-02-09

At the end of the 17th century a mysterious kayak-paddling “Finnman” was first seen in Orkney waters. Jonathan Westaway explores what the subsequent explanations tell us about early modern science's fascination with the "out of place": https://t.co/Cjzx1csrfv

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2022-02-07

The American painter William Tost Richards visited Orkney, Shetland and Skye in 1896, producing a series of watercolours which he later worked into large oil paintings in the style of the Hudson River School

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2022-02-03

The daughters of fin-folk have magical petticoats that twists around their legs to become a mermaid’s tail. So some mermaids actually have feet!

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2022-01-27

Some old watercolors from some time I spent in Orkney.

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2022-01-25

Destruction of Orkney

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2021-12-13

day 8

The Selkie from my Myths in isolation series. She now lives up in Orkney with a magical storyteller who told her tale for my book.

Coloured pencils on cartridge paper

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2021-12-09

New artwork for sale! - "Stromness Orkney Islands Astonishing Sun over Mainland" - https://t.co/7Cii8F6q18

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2021-11-26

This week our is St Ives harbour and Godrevy c. 1934-8 by Alfred Wallis

This work, along with a number of Alfred Wallis works in our collection, is double sided. On the reverse of this work is Yacht, pink and green.

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2021-11-24

Varied Thrush, Papa Westray, Orkney. Don’t think I’ve done such a fantastic bird justice here, hopefully do a larger painting soon. Can’t thank ⁦⁩ enough for finding the bird which resulted in such a memorable twitch🙂

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2021-11-05

This is an oil painting over a poster found in a skip of a wave washing over a lighthouse. Some of the original photograph is still showing through. Hay bales and standing stones, Orkney Isles.

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2021-11-02

Here we have a canvas in four stages. A reliable source tells me they get worse as they go along, but I can’t help adding new layers and media. No. 4 even has printing ink and mono prints scattered across it. Seeing what works, & not worrying too much about it. Orkney landscape.

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2021-11-01