SANTA WARNA LANDS, c.1947

 

Drawing.  Dimensions unknown.

 

Provenance

Untraced.

 

Exhibited

London,  Mayor Gallery, 1947, (drawings) No. 6.

 

St Warna was the patron saint of the Scilly Island of St Agnes and presided over wrecks.  When islanders wanted a wreck to plunder, it was said that they would go to the well, utter a prayer and drop pins in the water.

 

Colquhoun's prose poem, The Myth of Santa Warna (1) deals with the saint’s arrival from Ireland in a hide-covered wicker boat, her wishing well, the Old Man of Gugh and her ultimate identification with the land itself.

 

Notes

1. Colquhoun, I.  The Myth of Santa Warna. The Glass, issue 1, Summer

                      1948. Unpaginated.

 

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