Circle of light and darkness, be our sign.
We move in shadows,
Brodgar has burned on the moor a dance of sun.
Ring of quern and plough, contain
Our tumults of blood.
The stars' chaos is caught in a strict rein.
Wheel of life and death, remove
The sweet warm breath.
Ingibiorg flowers in stone, all beauty and love.
Round of sun and snow and seed,
Out of those skulls
Breaks the first green shoot, the full ear, then the bread.
George Mackay Brown (1921-1996)
The Heritage Trust
Preserving the Past for the Future
About Me
- Littlestone
- Studied art and design at Swindon School of Art, Wiltshire, England and afterwards Japanese painting and calligraphy at Kyoto University of Fine Arts, Kyoto, Japan. In 1966 I was a lay monk at the Zen Buddhist temple of Ryozen-an in Kyoto and practiced under the guidance of its Director, Ruth Fuller-Sasaki and senior monk Dana R Fraser (co-translator of Layman P'ang: A Ninth Century Zen Classic). Also present at Ryozen-an was the author and poet Gary Snyder. Gary Snyder was one of the first Westerners in Japan to study Zen Buddhism and was the inspiration for Jack Kerouac's book, The Dharma Bums. I was assistant conservator (paintings) at Kyoto National Museum from 1969-1980 and Chief Conservator (Eastern Pictorial Art) at the British Museum from 1980-1986. Japan Foundation Fellow 1973-1974 and Fellow of the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works since 1985.
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