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Fær 25 Aug 2013 | 03:35 pm
Fær THE OLD ENGLISH word above holds inside it many meanings. It is a going, a journey, a way, a journeying, an expedition, a road, a passing, a course, a march, a voyage, a path; it isa place whe...
Hag-Light and Tale-Shadow 8 Aug 2013 | 04:27 pm
IN A WOODEN TRUNK in our living room there lives a witch. She has been there, folded up amongst candle stubs and bits of string since last summer when I made her to walk the forested edges of the Unci...
Drawing 29 Jul 2013 | 12:27 am
MY SKETCHBOOKS rarely get shown to anyone. For me it is too vulnerable and exposing an experience letting someone else leaf through my unfinished scribbles, personal expressions and thoughts, especial...
Weed Wife 19 Jul 2013 | 06:53 pm
FROM THE LOVELY late Maying to this humming cloudless unfamiliar summer heat, the Earth has been laughing in flowers. I have watched the lanes and the hills and the riverbanks as they've blossomed in ...
Widdershins 28 Jun 2013 | 11:29 pm
WALKING WIDDERSHINS (counter-clockwise) was, in days of yore, a well known way to enter the realm of myth and enchantment, the Land Under The Hill, the otherworld of faery... On Summer Solstice Frida...
The Scrimstone Circus Gospel 3 Jun 2013 | 01:43 am
The Scrimstone Circus Gospel illustration 1 - by Rima Staines LISTEN TO ME. I wasn't born for birthday parties and scented candles in the twilight bath or string quartets on the lawn. I wasn't made ...
A Forest of Pencils 26 May 2013 | 10:04 pm
IN SLAVIC MYHTOLOGY there is a shape-shifting spirit of the forest called the Leshy (Леший). He protects the wild animals and birds and the woods, and can change his size from as tall as the tallest t...
Rhymes and Pigments of May 15 May 2013 | 12:57 pm
CAMPION, Stitchwort, Celandine, Jack-by-the-Hedge, Forget-me-not, Cow Parsley, Vetch, Bluebell, Pink Purslane, Kingcup, Wood Anemone, Yellow Archangel, Cranesbill, Bittercress, Buttercup, Daisy, Ramso...
Hello Yellow 29 Apr 2013 | 07:15 pm
HELLO YELLOW. We wondered when you'd come... ...whistling down the lane in your suncoat, laughing over your shoulder at the long dark winter who dawdled overlong on our doorstep. Will you stay a w...
The Nisse Mother Clock 22 Apr 2013 | 05:48 pm
A HILL-HAG LOOKS OUT from the where she crouches underneath a tree whose roots entangle her white hair. Amongst the roots also hide Nisse - small red-capped Norwegian gnomes, and outside beyond the h...
