Finding Sanctuary on an Arisaig Beach

This audio forms part of a series of audio interviews conducted in 2023 by Smartify as part of the Spirit of the Highlands and Islands project. Listen and discover the Spirit of the Highlands and Islands through the eyes of the stitchers of the Tapestry of the Highlands and Islands.

Join Caroline in conversation with the Maerl stitchers as she shares the floral and faunal inspiration behind her journey stone and finding a sense of place on a beach at Arisaig.

I think for me, standing on the beach and seeing the landscape and seeing Eigg and Skye and being there with my feet on the ground gave me a sense of place. My new place, but still place...with COVID and everything else, it was a feeling of a blanket, sort of, wrapping me up...