"Eynhallow, disappearing island"
Size: 170 x 76cm (67" x 30")
Materials: cotton, linen, rayon and wool. Woven at 8 warps per inch on cotton warp.
Handwoven tapestry based on an acrylic painting in my sketchbook (size 20.5 x 9.5cm) of the view looking across to the uninhabited island of Eynhallow from Aikerness beach in Evie, Orkney.
Eynhallow, also known as Holy Island, is known within local folklore as a disappearing island due to the surrounding turbulent tides. It was also the summer home of the mythical "Finfolk": fearsome, amphibious, human-formed creatures with webbed fingers and toes and scaley skin. They were known to be great swimmers and equally at home on land or under the sea.
A selection of detail photographs below:
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