George Mackay Brown

Stromness, 1981

At Brodgar

Stromness nousts and piers

3 Mayburn Court, Stromness (1968 to 1996),

the 'watchtower house' overlooking

Museum noust and pier.

Warbeth kirkyard, outside Stromness, with the hills of Hoy in the background

Portrait by Ian Scott, 1986

Poets' Pub by Alexander Moffat, 1980'The poets have played the leading role, both in their verse and prose, in shaping the artistic conscience of this country ... In this painting I've attempted to evoke the romance of Edinburgh's Bohemian life of the late 1950's and early 1960's ... The poets are together in a space suggesting Milne's, the Abbotsford and the Cafe Royal, the so-called 'poet's pubs.’ (Alexander Moffat)

Hugh MacDiarmid, Norman MacCaig, Iain Crichton Smith,George Mackay Brown, Robert Garioch, Sorley MacLean Edwin Morgan

(Scottish National Portrait Gallery)

In the Braes Lounge, Stromness

by Alexander Moffat  c1980

(The original is in

Stromness Academy)

Remains of the Mackay Croft, Braal, Strathy, Sutherland.The only remaining inhabited croft in Braal today can be

seen to the left of the picture.

Stromness