Traces of St Mary's Isle

Traces of St Mary's Isle is a stitched map of memory and significance, created from hand dyed linen, fish skin, thread and symbolic objects gathered along the peninsula.  Ley lines and the cyanometer’s measure of blue thread through the piece, marking both energy and atmosphere. Material fragments mirror the textures of the shore, while fish skin carries the sheen of the tidal edge. Through layering, mending and careful placement, the work becomes both chart and keepsake, mapping an intimate connection to the landscape and the stories that continue to live within it. 

Features:

• Terracotta woodland landscape mounted on fish skin
• Steel blue mud flats hand painted outflows
• Hand printed blue fabric using earth pigments representing the River Dee
• Freestyle machine embroidered River
• Thread Cartography Ley Lines
• Inch Island represented in terracotta pebble.
• Cyanometer
• Symbolic objects and markers

Encased in a 63cm X 37cm white painted wooden frame (2cm deep), fitted with a durable cotton cord for secure wall display. This art map is hung vertically.