Inside Fingal's Cave

Inside Fingal's Cave
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Don't know who Fingal is Michael, but I could happily make my home there.

Thanks Adele. It does fill up with water so not a good place to live in. It's in the Hebrides in Scotland. This image appeared on the flip side of another painting as the ink soaked through and it was much better.

Beautiful washes and colours, Michael, and great atmosphere.

I went in there in a rubber dinghy when I was 9, with adults I hasten to add, but found it fascinating with the rock formations. It was quite scary. Somehow this captures it!

Thanks Cesare and Gudrun. What an adventure Gudrun!

Lovely one Michael and the yellow shines

Thanks Dennis - you inspired it. It was a flip-side, soaked-through image that just appeared. I never touched it. Do you think I have special powers?

Yes Michael, special powers to capture atmosphere!

The inks meld well together and gives this a mysterious feel.

Thanks Sarah. A friend artist told me he was more interested in the flip side, soaked through image, as this one, than the main work.

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Michael Mcmanus

I was born in 1946. In the 1960s and part of the 70s I was an airman in the Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm. I joined Durham Constabulary in 1971. In 1999 I retired from policing and began teaching sociology and criminology at Durham University with emphasis on policing and researching crime. I am drawn…

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