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“Earth Laughs in Flowers”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
22.5 x 17.5 cm
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A Winter Solstice Garden
22.5 x 17.5 cm
The Winter Solstice takes place on or around December 21st. It marks the longest and darkest night of the year. This is a celebration of light and the rebirth of the Sun. Ancient rituals involved lighting huge bonfires to encourage the Sun to return to warm the cold earth once more.
Original For Sale here €225
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The Moon Garden
20 x 16 cm
In ancient times it was discovered that different plants and crops grew better when planted according to the phases of the moon. Each moon phase imparts an influence on the growth on vegetation as moisture levels in the ground vary. At the new moon the lunar gravity pulls water up and moisture levels in the soil are high. Seeds present in the soil swell and burst. In the second quarter the gravitational pull is less but the moonlight is strong. This is a time for strong leaf growth. Just after the full moon the gravitational pull is still high but the moon is beginning to wane. There is more moisture in the soil but since the moonlight is decreasing, growth is now concentrated in the roots. The last quarter of the moon is considered a resting period- a good time to cultivate, harvest, transplant and prune as both levels of moonlight and gravitational pull have decreased.
Original For Sale here €225
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Nature Spirits At Dusk
15 x 10 cm
Between the setting of the sun and the black of night,dusk is a potent, magical time . . .for in its eerie half–light one can cross the borders dividing our mundane world from supernatural realms.
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Flower Essence Healing
29 x 24 cm
Flower Essences can treat any number of ailments whether physical, mental or emotional. They are made using flowers growing in an ecologically sound and unpolluted environment. They work by targeting and treating the emotional imbalance which is impacting on the physical body. By treating the primary cause of illness drastic changes and long- term healing occur within the physical body. Flower Essences have a reputation worldwide for being incredibly quick acting and are an effective drug free solution that can be used safely with everyone. The key to Flower Essence healing is that is goes straight to the root cause and treats the primary issue of illness rather than a symptom- allowing healing to take place.
Katie Burton, Flower Remedies
Original For Sale here €245
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Elementals At Dusk
18 x 13 cm
“Hand in hand, with fairy grace,
Will we sing, and bless this place.”
-A Midsummer Night’s Dream -Shakespeare
Original For Sale here €195
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Oberon and Titania, King and Queen of the Fairies
23 x 19 cm
” I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
with sweet musk-roses and with eglantine”
Oberon, Act II scene I – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Rose Flower Essence
28 x 23 cm
The rose is known as the Flower of Love. This Queen of Flowers is believed to be the most beloved flower on earth, held closest to the human heart. It is said that the beauty of the rose mirrors the perfection of the heavenly realms and that it carries the highest vibration among flowers. The rose represents love, affection, compassion, purity, innocence and passion. These varied interpretations, among others, depend, in part, on the color and fragrance of each individual rose. As the rose is the universal flower of love, the heart centre always responds to the rose. Rose flower essence supports and protects the heart from emotional pain and trauma, fostering resilience and endurance in the face of sudden change.
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Family Tree
28 x 24 cm
Human beings look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then we are so made that we can only see the present moment. If we could see the past, then of course it would look different. For there was a time when when every man was part of his mother and (earlier still) part of his father as well, and when they were part of his grandparents. If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing- rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear conected with every other.
C.S. Lewis
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Accept Yourself As You Are
29 x 24 cm
“Human beings like plants grow in the soil of acceptance,
not in the atmosphere of rejection”
J. Powell
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Midsummer’s Eve
30 x 24 cm
Midsummer is primarily a Celtic fire festival traditionally celebrated on the 23rd or 24th of June. It marks the change from the light half of the year to the dark half of the year, although the longest day of the year actually falls on the 21st of June. The importance of the day to our ancestors can be traced back many thousands of years. Many stone circles and other ancient monuments are aligned to the sunrise on Midsummer’s Day.
Midsummer is the time when everything is abundant and flourishing. Flowers smell their sweetest, colours are their most vibrant, trees are their greenest, berries are their sweetest, and fairies are their most playful. It is a time when nature’s lavishness has reached a pinnacle point. It is said that on Midsumme’s Eve during a full moon a mortal may witness fairy dances and celebrations.
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The Painted Lady
28 x 23 cm
The Painted Lady butterfly carries out the most incredible migration to Ireland each year. In early summer it travels all the way from the fringes of the Moroccan desert, through mainland Europe, across the Irish sea until it finally reaches Ireland. With its tiny wingspan of 2 inches it covers up to 2000km in as little as a month. Until recently, it was thought that the Painted Lady migration was a one-way migration to Ireland . However, it has just been discovered that Irish born Painted Ladies make the return journey to Africa , flying at high altitudes which previously went undetected. This ensures Morocco has enough butterflies to send our way the following summer.
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The Garden 15 x 10 cm
Sitting quietly
Doing nothing
Spring comes
& the grass grows by itself
Matsuo Basho 1644-1694
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Path Of Difference
Don’t die with your music still in you…follow your own path
15 x 11cm
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Harvest Moon
14 x 9 cm
The moon is the guide,
Come this way to my house,
So says the host of a wayside inn.
Matsuo Basho 1644-1694
Original For Sale here €155
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The Handless Maiden
54 x 51 cm
“The Handless Maiden” story is called, in different parts of the world, “Silver Hands,” “The Handless Bride,” and “The Orchard”. Folklorists number more than a hundred versions of the tale.
“The Handless Maiden” is about is about women’s initiation into the underground forest through the rite of endurance. The word endurance sounds as though it means “to continue without cessation,” and while this is an occasional part of the tasks underlying the tale, the word endurance also means “to harden, to make sturdy, to make robust, to strengthen,” and this is the principal thrust of the tale, and the generative feature of a woman’s long psychic life. We do not just go on to go on. Endurance means we are making something substantial.
The teaching of endurance occurs all throughout nature. The pads of wolf pups’ paws are soft as clay when the pups are born. It is only the ranging, the roaming, the treks on which their parents take them that toughen them up. Then they can climb and bound over sharp gravel, over stinging nettle, even over broken glass, without being hurt…….In mythos, the teaching of endurance is one of the great rites of the Great Wild Mother, the Wild Woman archetype. It is her timeless ritual to make her offspring strong. It is she who toughens us up, makes us potent and enduring.
Women Who Run with the Wolves – Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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The Fairy Path
Aurelia’s Midnight Garden
22 x 17 cm
Fairy paths are reputed to run the length and breadth of Ireland. Known now as ley-lines these are underground lines of force which are associated with magical or unusual happenings. Fairy paths connected fairy places generally, and in Ireland, the fairy forts in particular. The paths were usually used by “trooping fairies”, often on their way to battles with other groups of fairies, but other times just by fairies to go about their fairy business, about which mortals need not enquire. The Fairy People of Ireland or the “Good People” always warned mortals not to build their dwellings over these paths of force as strange things and disturbances would begin to happen.
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Bealtaine
24 x 16 cm
The Celtic Festival of Bealtaine lies half way between the Spring Equinox and the Summer Solstice. In Irish mythology, the beginning of the summer season and the bright half of the year started with the Fire Festival at Bealtaine. Great bonfires would mark a time of purification and transition, heralding in the season in the hope of a good harvest later in the year, and were accompanied with rituals to protect the people from any harm by otherworldly spirits.
At Bealtaine the veil between the Otherworld and ours is said to be at its thinnest. Both worlds intermingle and when they unite magic abounds. This is a night when witches, fairies and ghosts wander freely. The Fairies or the Sidhe move from their Winter homes to their Summer abodes carefree, full of fairy mischief and fairy delight.
As the story goes, on the eve of Bealtaine the May Queen arises from her Winter’s sleep. The May Queen is Flora, goddess of the flowers, Princess of the Fae. She must marry the May King to ensure the close of Winter, sending the Queen of Winter away for another 6 months. This ensures that the earth can be abundant once more. As the summer rolls on the May Queen gives forth her bounty, moving into the Mother phase. The earth blossoms and blooms with crops and flowers and trees.
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Imbolc
25 x 20 cm
The ancient lunar fire festival Brigid is celebrated on February 1st. It is also called Imbolc or Imbolg which translates as “in the belly”. This title refers to the womb of mother earth as the land or soil. The seed that was planted at the solstice is quickening and new life stirs. This is a festival of waxing light and purification, heralding the potential of spring.
Brigid was such a beloved goddess that this festival was held in her honour. Of her, Alexander Carmichael (1832-1912) in the Carmina Gadelica Vol. 3 wrote – “Bride with her white wand is said to breathe life into the mouth of the dead Winter and to bring him to open his eyes to the tears and the smiles, the sighs and the laughter of Spring. The venom of the cold is said to tremble for its safety on Bride’s Day, and to flee for its life on Patrick’s Day.”
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The Emerald Forest
12 x 12 cm
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Full Moon At Samhain
21 x 17 cm
Samhain is one of the eight main ancient festivals in the Celtic Wheel of the Year. The Feast of Samhain, Oíche Shamhna, marks one of the two great doorways of the Celtic year as well as celebrating the Celtic New Year. This is a time of decay, letting go, releasing the old to die and to be transformed. According to the Celts the gods drew near to Earth at Samhain, as at all the turning points of the Celtic year. The Celts believed that Samhain was a time when the boundaries between this world and the Otherworld were broken and the dead could return to the places where they had lived. Many rituals of this festival involved providing hospitality for dead ancestors: Food and drink was put out for the dead with great ceremony – windows, doors, and gates unlocked to give the dead free passage into their homes. Many of these rituals are still carried out today. As the veil between the two worlds thins on this night, ghosts, demons, and witches are released from the underworld. To ensure that all evil spirits are kept at bay people light bonfires as a protective measure.
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Green Lady
12 x 12 cm
The Green Lady is a beautiful and protective spirit. She is known as the Green Lady because of her long green gown which touches the ground. She is usually associated with water and there are stories of a beautiful woman arriving at a cottage, dripping wet. She asks to come in so that she can warm herself and dry her clothing. If she feels welcome in the home, she may stay a while and protect that particular house as well as the family that lives in it. If the family moves from the home, she stays behind to protect the next family. It is said that she is also very helpful to farmers. She has been known to protect cattle by herding them into the barn to protect them from a storm or other enemies.
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Take Refuge Here
25 x 23 cm
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.
Henry David Thoreau
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The Merrow’s Lair
18 x 17 cm
The Merrow is a type of sea-nymph. In Irish they are known as Moruadh or Murrughach, from muir, sea and oigh, a maid. They are not uncommon on the wilder coasts of Ireland. The fishermen do not like to see them for it always means coming gales. Merrows wear a special hat called a cohuleen druith which enables them to dive beneath the waves. If they lose this cap it is said they have no power to return beneath the water. Merrow-maidens are reputed to lure young men to follow them beneath the waves where afterwards they live in an enchanted state. They would seem to have been around for millenia because according to the bardic chroniclers, when the Milesians first landed on Irish shores the Moruadh played around them on their passage.
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“Moth Elemental”
24 x 14 cm
Elementals are nature spirits. They exist in nature in different forms such as earth, air, fire or water elementals. Air elementals are also known as Sylphs. Sometimes their voices are heard on the wind or their airy forms are felt in passing, though they are rarely seen. They are described as almost transparent, very small, and winged or alternatively as tall with long feathered wings, large, hawk-like eyes and angular faces. The term sylph is derived from the Greek word silphe, which means a ‘butterfly’ or ‘moth’. In Irish folklore the butterfly symbolised a person’s soul. The significance was that at death, the soul had the ability to cross-over from this world into the Otherworld.
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