A modern scottish scene....

[bunn]

From narya_flame‘s lovely story ‘The Ways of Paradox’  set in modern St Andrews, Scotland. It’s a gentle and delightful story where Maglor meets some really engaging original characters, beautifully written with a real feel for both the Scottish setting and also daily university student life.

This painting is of a scene from Ch13, and shows Maglor & Claire talking at dusk at the end of the pier.



I've never been to St Andrews (alas!  It looks gorgeous) so I had to paint this from a collection of reference images and description.

Comments

[alithea]

St Andrews is gorgeous but it's also full of hilarious super rich English and American snobs... I like to visit now and again but it'd drive me batty to live there (not that I ever would given the house prices!). It's quite like Chichester if you've ever been there, except with a huge beach and golf courses, and a castle. If you ever fancy the epic trek up to Scotland, it's about 25 mins drive from Dundee and we should have a functional spare room by the summer.

[bunn]

Oh, well, I was at university in Oxford, so that's par for the course :-D

Narya studied at St Andrews, so she writes it beautifully.

Thanks for the invite! It IS a long way, but maybe I will make it at some point!