An exhibition featuring the work of several artists has opened at an art gallery in Laxey.

Former Manx resident Carola Colley opened her latest display, entitled ’Saltmother’, at the Hodgson Loom gallery.

Her latest body of work was three years in the making, and was created in partnership with three other artists, island-based poets Usha Kishore and Paul Quayle, and UK artist Beatrice Lacey.

Carola has worked with each artist individually for a number of years as part of her on-going project ’9 Threads Woven’, which takes inspiration from myth, folklore, poetry and memory making work that brings together natural, physical and mental elements to create her works of art.

Carola’s work with Usha is inspired by the poet’s second book, ’Night Sky Between the Stars’, which was released in 2015.

Carola has also included work from Paul Quayle, who created a series of meditative hiaku, inspired by the ancient and sacred landscapes of the Isle of Man and the UK, in particular Cashtal yn Ard, and the Rollrights stones in Oxfordshire.

Beatrice Lacey is an illustrative artist who travelled with Carola along the Iberian peninsula, from Olhoa in Portugal to Bilbao in northern Spain, following ancient roads and archeological sites.

Their work is described as ’an investigation of human mark making and its relationship with body and landscape. The spiritual sense of place and of being and the physicality of place and experience are indivisibly woven together’.

The exhibition was opened with a performance by singer Matt Kelly. ’Saltmother’ is on display until April 21.