In 1941, at the height of World War 2, troops stationed on Hoy in the remote Scottish Orkney Islands made a ghoulish discovery. Buried in peat on a lonely, windswept hill was the perfectly preserved body of a young woman, “her long dark hair curling about her shoulders”.
The enigma of the Dwarfie Stane continues to captivate visitors. It is an indicator of a distant past and of people that were highly knowledgeable living in what now is Orkney, Scotland.
Wick artist s painting like a LSD trip By David G Scott Published: 07:37, 17 January 2021
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A painting featuring in a new online show by an artist from Wick was lauded by a scientist who had worked in psychedelic therapy in the 1950s.
Professor Ian Charles Scott, who now lives in New York, has work in the show hosted by Edinburgh s prestigious Open Eye Gallery â an online-only exhibition due to Covid restrictions.
The show is called An Exhibition Celebrating the Lives of W Gordon Smith and Mrs Jay Gordonsmith and features Ian s painting, which was created in 1989 and depicts a surreal scene within a megalithic chambered tomb in Orkney known as the Dwarfie Stane.