Another wee piece from the Yellow Door exhibition:

 

Iceland is the country that Scotland sometimes yearns to be. Its independent, self-governing, confident chippiness appeals to that part of the Scottish identity which longs to tell the rest of the world how unique we are.

 

Its austere northern beauty chimes with those parts of our country which lift us to the best of ourselves.

 

Its creativity is unembarrasedly original. A bit like our own.

 

Its weather makes ours seem tropical!

 

And when we stand on the beaches of Sutherland, or the Isle of Lewis, or Shetland, or Orkney – it’s Iceland which is in our mind’s eye’s shouting distance. And we smile back at our near neighbour across the ever-changing Atlantic Sea.