There's more than a touch of Wuthering Heights about the work of Holme Valley clothing designer Kate Thorne, showing at the Left Bank in Leeds later this month.

Her centrepiece ‘wedding dress’ in natural calico, muslin and linen, inspired by the dramatic Pennine Hills, has a canvas train that quite literally bears the marks of the Holme Moss landscape.

Kate, who lives in Holmbridge, says the gown, entitled Pennine Woman, is a collaborative work with friend and fellow artist Kyla Dante.

She explains: “We took the 20ft train up onto Holme Moss and laid it out on a peat mound and started piling the earth onto it.

“Then Kyla collected water from standing pools and poured that onto the train and started working it into the canvas.

Pennine Woman, gown by Kate Thorne for Echoes of a Spiritual nature

“That’s her method of working with canvas, that’s how she paints; painting with the earth, using the natural colours of the landscape to dye the fabric.”

There’s much in the exhibition, Echoes of a Spiritual Nature (April 19 to 21) - from light projections and visual artwork to sculptural forms - that captures the rawness and hardiness of Yorkshire’s rural scenery.

Kate says the work has been compared to Wuthering Heights in the way it highlights the brooding, Gothic qualities of our wild moorland.

She is even reluctant to describe her gown as a wedding dress and says: “It’s more of a shroud really.”

Kate, who designs niche and alternative clothing under the Technodolly label - “for people who go to festivals or Goth weekends; hippy and medieval stuff” - has yet to see the finished train, as Kyla has taken it away to complete.

It is the main collaborative piece in the show, which is being curated by Kyla.

A number of other artists are involved in the exhibition, including Kate’s partner Mick Berry, a student mentor at Huddersfield University and musician.

Natural fabric sculptural 'wedding dress' by Kate Thorne for Echoes of a Spiritual Nature

“He has captured sounds; of animals and birds, the wind blowing across fields, to create atmospheric soundscapes,” she explained.

“Most of his recordings will and have been made in the Holme Valley, but, obviously, not the sound of sea waves crashing on the shore.

“He has captured the sound of water in rivers by using a microphone that can be submerged under water.”

The theme of the exhibition is an exploration of nature and spirituality, but without a religious context.

As Kate says: “It’s a call to the earth, from the earth; about humans communicating with the planet. It is, as it says, Echoes of a Spiritual Nature.”

On Wednesday, April 19, from 7pm there will be an immersive multi-sensory performance of music, sounds, light and visual projections to open the exhibition.