St John's Chapel

Tomorrow we have our school's Founder's Day service at the Church of St Nicholas in Aberdeen. I visited today to finalise arrangements and couldn't help but capture this image.

It is the main window in St John's Chapel within the main kirk, sometimes referred to as the Offshore Chapel. The design is beautiful but it's the colours which I love.

The window marks 25 years of oil exploration in the North Sea, showing the relationship between the city of Aberdeen and the oil industry. It contrasts the new offshore technology with traditional local industries. At the heart of the window is the market town of Aberdeen, whose traditional fishing industry is represented by the overflowing nets of a trawler. Beyond, lie today's harvesters of the sea: the oil tankers, support vessels and supply boats which service the north sea oil fields. Glass lenses symbolise all the oil and gas fields in production when the window was made, with a white lens commemorating the Piper Alpha field. The window won a ''Saltire' Award for Arts in Architecture.