Isle of Sanday  
Orkney, Scotland

Unframed archival pigment print  

Orkney’s islands are in constant flux, building here and washing away there. Sanday is typical. Looking down on Tresness and Cata Sand you see how that landscape is constantly changing. When the sea breaks in a bay soon forms and the farmland is in peril. A scalloped beach shows how tenuous is the island’s hold on its land.  (As it happens recent erosion revealed a Neolithic house on the beach near the dunes, rapidly washing away. Archeologists struggled to excavate the site, digging between tides that inundated their work twice a day. Soon the ancient dwelling will be lost forever.) These islands stretch out into the North Sea, constantly shifting. Their names are relics of the age when Vikings in longboats came and settled. Like those Vikings I find wandering through these island quite an adventure. 

FINE ART PRINTS

Printed on Epson's Legacy Baryta II paper, a beautiful OBA-free heavy fine art paper which makes a sumptuous visual presentation. Printed with Epson's Ultrachrome inks for the greatest archival print longevity and color gamut. 

Printed personally by Jim, individually signed and numbered, embossed with Jim's studio blind stamp to confirm that each print was created by him. 

Note: our print sizes denote the actual image size. Printed with a wide margin of white paper to facilitate handling, so the total paper size will be larger.