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An Orkney Saga, parts 1 to 4. After a bad few days doodling up a cul de sac feeling a little better now. Even though I’ve run out of flake white.

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2021-09-07

“Come ashore for rack and ruin havoc it brings, disease and drought. With killer breath he blows Mortasheen, a disease to strike horses. Of this land.” -The Book of Beasties

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2021-08-18

Steve’s lighthouse, part of the sculpture trail in aid of in 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦀🎨.

Two Worlds One Scotland.

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2021-08-07

Near the ocean of Orkney, a wolf appears and seems he wants us to follow him. Muramasa senses a god-like aura, he wonders if there is a divine servant around as this lb has no god. We decide to go to Orkney with a boat

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2021-07-30

Now we decide where to go. Oberon wants to ring Oxford's bell now that woodwas is dead but the queens army is gonna be there. However da vinci says that the perfect spot to go now is Orkney at the north. As knocknare and the queens army isnt there

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2021-07-26

⚓️NEXT WEEK ON SPYHARDS!⚓️

Your agents are joined by Carrie Specht of to infiltrate the Orkney Islands with Conrad Veidt in 1939s THE SPY IN BLACK!

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2021-07-24

I loved our trip to Orkney in 2017

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2021-06-30

Born and raised in Orkney, talks about how her upbringing influences her work, along with a little insight into her experience as a self employed artist!
⭐️ Find out more about "Working in: The Arts" here: https://t.co/U9OQPR5ME9

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2021-06-25

This week's is Sylvia Wishart's Untitled, 1966 currently on display as part of our exhibition -Orkney and the Artist

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2021-06-23

Happy Monday! ✨ Introducing , a comic artist drawing one of the stories in our upcoming comic anthology, "Working In: The Arts"! ⭐️

"I was born and grew up in Orkney, so a lot of my inspiration is drawn from the sea, the natural world and folklore."

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2021-05-10

The most famous Dark Elves of fiction, the Drow, derive their name from the Trow, a spirit of Orkney and Shetland not dissimilar from trolls or elves in function and temperament.

🖼: Brom

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2021-04-07

It's a little known fact that Bird Man was in fact a real person and you can find him at Cathedral in

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2021-04-07

This week our is Yacht, pink and green c.1934-8 by Alfred Wallis. Wallis often painted on both sides of boards. This painting has St Ives harbour and Godrevy painted on the other side.

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2021-03-24

“Neigh.”

So, Scottish folklore has an oddly large amount of ‘evil water horses’, like kelpies. However, if you go far enough north to the Orkney Islands, Orkadian folklore has the most evil water horse, the Nuckelavee. (Cont)

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2021-02-19

Fantroll Adoptable

"Your name is PHOCAH ORKNEY, and you HATE THIS STUPID COAT. Your matesprit gave this to you, after she STOLE YOURS. One day you’ll get REVENGE."

$5 USD!!

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2021-02-18

John Scott of Easting in the Orkneys was a fiddler who spent a year underground pleasing the with his music. Told he'd never again lack for money, he had but put his hand in his pocket when he wanted it & it appeared. Until he told someone his secret...#FairyTaleTuesday

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2021-01-27

Inspired by my visit to the Orkneys - "Standing Stones" (acrylics). See more recent works by Rich Wagner at https://t.co/oFJK6aSV3N

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2021-01-26

UB Pestilence, an Ultra Beast Fakemon based on the Nuckelavee, my favorite mythical creature from Orkneyan mythology. A Fire/Poison type.

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2020-12-21