Stac Lee (Etching)

Stac Lee is the muffin-shaped island in the St Kilda archipelago. From a distance it looks white on top, but as you get closer most of the gannets and fulmars that live there take noisily to the skies and it's just the residual guano that bleaches the dark rock. I wanted to represent the darkness of the rocky sea stacks, the long shadows from the setting sun and the feeling of history. The long weight of years is heavy here. These are the islands the St Kildans rowed to from Hirta, to harvest the sea birds they lived on. For hundreds of years. Even on a calm day, the swell at the base of those terrifying cliffs was significant.