Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now am found, Was blind, but now I see.
T'was Grace that taught my heart to fear. And Grace, my fears relieved. How precious did that Grace appear The hour I first believed.
When we've been here ten thousand years Bright shining as the sun. We've no less days to sing God's praise Than when we've first begun.
Two Nordic dragons entwined form the focus of energy for this forearm arm guard. On the inner arm they meet to face off underneath a triquetra Celtic knot, and their bodies fill the rest of the arm with a matrix of knotwork. The best of both the Neo-Nordic and Celtic styles: representational imagery blended with knotwork that covers the arm with a web of interlocking weaves.
Pictish Z-Rod and Double Discs glyph, an enigmatic symbol carved on one of the standing stones in Moray,Scotland by my ancestors the Picts. How proud I am to add it near the signature of my old friend Lyle Tuttle, RIP. Now this woman who has great enthusiasm for Scotland can be an honorary Pict and go forward to her next adventures well marked.
The original of this charming mermaid is on The Maid of Meigle Pictish Stone, carved within the 3rd-6th centuries, now in the Meigle Museum in Perthshire, Scotland. She features a classic Melusine split tail and holds her twined hair. In some of my tattoo versions she is attended by adoring fishes made of Celtic knotwork.
