Community Print 3D Print of Anycubic's Grand Tour Competition

My print is the statue of St. Aidan of Lindisfarne. Lindisfarne, also known as Holy Island, was the scene of the first Viking raids of Britain and housed a monastery which contains the Lindisfarne gospels. It was overrun by Vikings and St Aidan retreated to Durham in safety. When I was a child, I visited the Island as a local school excursion and learned its history. There in the field near the ruin of the old monastery stood this statue. I remembered the name, it being unusual to me as a child and never forgot the beauty of the island. This statue means a lot to me, not just because of its striking silhouette and simplistic pose, but it's name too. Many years later, my fiancee are expecting our first child and we're struggling to find a name we both like. I think back to this name and how it made me feel as a child and mention this to my partner and so, the birth of our baby boy Aidan! He's old enough now to learn himself of the local island and so showing this to him brings me joy. Here's the statue of Aidan of Lindisfarne, the seed of a thought which would later grow into welcoming our very own Aidan into the world. I tried photographing it in a natural outdoor environment as it sits open to the weather in its place in Lindisfarne. This is my first attempt at painting a statue and I learned a lot from it.