This is a framed print of a digital piece I created for the recent Summer Solstice. Now I don’t like Summer. I really don’t. I don’t like the relentless heat and noise and light that so many others seem to love. And many of the worst things that have ever happened to me have happened in the Summer, so the whole season is a set of unpleasant, traumatic associations for me. One of the things that most terrifies me about climate change is that we’ll find ourselves locked in an… Read more ‘A Warrior (Against The Heat)’ →
At the Summer Solstice, when the days are longest and hottest, the Winter stirs and prepares to do battle with the relentless heat, to restore to the land the comfort of cold breezes and the dreams of long, dark nights. Damian Mark Whittle
Damian Mark Whittle
‘A Guardian and a Warning’ ‘But which? Which one was he?’ ‘He was both’ Damian Mark Whittle
I’m very pleased this week to have two of my pieces featured in the latest issue of the marvelous Scroll Magazine.Both of these pieces were inspired by the landscape and atmosphere of ghost stories, especially of the Folk Horror variety. I feel that ghost stories, where characters are often isolated, time is out of joint, reminders of death are ever present and familiar places become strange are in many ways the perfect genre for the time of the pandemic and the lockdown. In ghost stories as in lockdown, the past… Read more ‘Ghost Stories for the Pandemic’ →
Damian Mark Whittle
In ancient folklore, the land was formed from the bodies of giants and great danger lay in ever waking them. Images and words by Damian Mark Whittle
Once, long ago, the giant Grehm stalked the land. Arrogant and unchallenged, he caused misery and suffering wherever he went. Then one day a hero finally brought him tumbling down… Read more ‘A Resting Place for a Giant’ →
