Cuillin – Medium float
To commission a float with your own boat, please get in touch.
£90.00
Sold by Fishing Float Art
Product of: Isle of Skye
Ships to: United States
A 6 inch round float, hand-painted with the Cuillin seen from Elgol, roped and ready to hang.
3 in stock
A round fishing float, hand-painted with the view of the Cuillin ridge as it looks from Elgol.
The artist behind Fishing Float Art was brought up in Orkney and has spent her adult life in the Isle of Skye, always right by the coast. She has been beachcombing all her life and has gathered floats along her local shoreline for thirty years. This is one of them, put to use.
The float is about 6 inches across, painted in deep blues and earth tones, with a compass rose on the flat top. It comes roped, with a loop ready to hang, and will sit as happily in a porch or a garden as in a hallway.
A characterful gift for anyone who knows that view, or who has taken a boat out of Elgol.
From the Isle of Skye · Hand-painted round float · About 6 inches · Compass rose on the top · Roped for hanging
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Brought up in Orkney, I have spent my entire adult life in Skye, With my husband, our 4 children and now granchildren! I have been lucky enough to always live right on the coast, and for as long as I can remember beach combing has been part of my life. From glass bottles in the low tide exposed mud in Stromness to the floats I have collected over the last 30 years on my local coastline. The painting started after a conversation with my Mum, who at the time was in Shetland, she had bought a float at a sale with a sailing ship on it. The spark was lit! All the floats that were collected for a reason I didn't yet know were put to use, and the rest they say is history!
From flowers, seabirds, lighthouses, classic west coast creel boats to Shetland super trawlers, the inspiration is never ending. The new edition of each fishing news brings material as does each walk out the door, photos from customers with photos of old and new family boats, I will never tire of painting them, old and new, big and small, each one meaning more to the owner than just a hull with a cuddy or wheelhouse. The floats are a special keepsake, and can be personalised not just with specific boats, but with names and dates too on a classic boat.
To commission a float with your own boat, please get in touch.