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Embroidered mixed-media portrait titled Dreaming of Love by the River II by Trinidad artist Christine Norton, botanical figure beside water, hand-stitched thread on archival print.

Dreaming of Love by the River III

Fine art archival print · 22 × 17 in · 2026 · US$754

This is the second half of the Dreaming of Love pair. If the first piece is the arrival at the river, this one is the staying — the moment after you’ve put down whatever you were carrying and the water has finally started to hear you.

I stitched into this one differently. The threads sit a little denser here, a little more insistent, the way a real conversation gets when it has been going for a while. The palette is close to its sister piece but not the same; that felt important. Love, in my experience, is rarely symmetrical.

For collectors of Caribbean art who are building a wall around a story rather than a single moment, the two Dreaming of Love pieces speak to each other. Hang them together and the river runs through both.

This piece is part of Embroidered x Nature, my current collection of hand- stitched botanical portraits.

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