sentences:  Throughout his work, Scanes constantly used motifs taken from the hieroglyphs and religious figures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia and from early European cave art from Lascaux and standing stones, and later rock art such as the Tassili frescoes.The Bronze Age White Horse of Uffington, Berkshire, lying broken on its hill, was one of his favourite recurring studies.He also wrote and illustrated a cycle of children’s stories, which remains unpublished.