The Silent Weaver (25 page)

Joyce Laing in the grounds of Craig Dunain, wearing a pony halter made of beech leaves and holding the grass wader (Joyce Laing)

Joyce Laing and Angus MacPhee in Uist House, 1996 (Tim Neat/Joyce Laing)

Other Scottish Outsider Art – one of the enigmatic stone heads of Adam Christie (Norman MacLeod/Taigh Chearsabhagh)

Mrs Flora Johnstone's shell bus in Iochdar, South Uist, as it began to disintegrate in 1990 (Neil King)

Flora Johnstone's raw materials: sea-shells glued into the lids of storage jars (Norman MacLeod/Taigh Chearsabhagh)

Rest and peace, within sight of the marram grass dunes and a few yards from the western ocean