This cross-artform project partnered visual artist and print maker Silvana MacLean with poet Mary Smith.

Silvana and Mary interviewed people in the area, collecting stories and memories. Silvana created five striking, unique prints which were included in a beautifully produced portfolio along with five of Mary’s poems.

These portfolios can be seen in a number of venues around the region such as Glentrool and Cairnsmore visitor centres and libraries and in the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh. The poems and prints are also reproduced in a pamphlet.

Mary Smith said, “These were wonderful projects on which to work, providing an opportunity to explore the incredible landscape around Cairnsmore and Glentrool and interview people – shepherds, farmers, forestry workers, walkers and hill climbers – for whom this land has special meaning”.

Voices from Glentrool and Merrick was funded by Scottish Natural Heritage and dg arts.