Dechmont Hills

2023

6 in x 6.5 in

Monk’s cloth, embroidery floss

Image description (from the artist): A square cross-stitch piece. The background of the cross-stitch is Monk’s cloth with frayed edges. There is a large white border around the image. The image is in a cross-stitch style, also pixelated looking. In the image, there are 5 sheep in a field. Behind them is a cobble stone wall, like one you would see in Britain. Behind the cobblestone wall is a small cottage. It has white and grey sides with a rusty red roof. Descending into the background there are rising hills in different earthy shades of green and orange. The sky is shown in three different shades of blue, also descending into the background.

Image description 2: A landscape cross-stitch scene depicting a farmers cottage in the British countryside. At the bottom of the scene, 5 black and white sheep are scattered across a field, grazing and wandering around the green grass. Behind them, separated by a dike (a word used in Scotland to describe a stone wall) and surrounded by fields is a cottage which is facing diagonally. The cottage features a brown roof and light grey front, the sides of the cottage are white and the shape on the sides is more blocky the closer it gets to the roof suggesting it is made out of brick.

The fields continue beyond the cottage, all of them different shades of green bar one further back which is a light orange-brown suggesting this field may contain grain. A field directly behind the cottage is a murkier green in comparison to the vibrant light and dark green of the field the sheep are currently in suggesting that that field was previously used for grazing. The fields behind the cottage continually get more hilly the further back they go and are all separated by dikes.

Around two-thirds from the top of the scene the fields/hills stop and turn into the sky which follows a similar pattern to the fields. The sky is separated into three levels of blue, at the top of the sky it is a baby blue, in the middle it is more aqua, and at the bottom it is a medium dark blue. The brightness and contrast between the colours in the scenery suggest that this scene is in summer.

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