A couple of days ago as a bit of a tidy up was taking place in the studio, an old dusty file was stumbled upon. On closer examination is was a collection of art work from a trip to Iona in the Hebrides from round about 1990/93, I'm not absolutely sure of the exact date, but there is a lot of really good stuff in there and  apart from a few of the pieces, it was not cataloged, scanned or recorded in any way. We are talking of about 40/50 inks, a few water colours, 5 infra red photos, 6/7 crayon landscapes, small number of 300 degree photographs and a whole pile of colour photographs. It took two days solid to do the scanning, cataloging after which came the persevering of the work in acid free archival books; quite a job and took a couple of days hard work. So now the everything is sorted the photos have be rejigged into a controlled space and the work fits very well into a single volume. I must write a book about how to compress a hundred plus images into a fifty four page book, giving everything its own page. Sounds impossible, but you can cheat a little.

Above is water colour of a gorgeous bay to the north east of Iona called, "The white strand of the monks". It's a place where a massacre of the abbey monks by the Vikings took place around about 700 AD.This amazing island called Iona is all about the Christian history and faith; it is full to overflowing with vivid history. I love the place. It would be nice to return one day.