The Long Road Out

Photo Friday "Home"

| Published Monday, May 29, 2006 by Jane.

Wasp Nest!

This beauty was in my garden last summer.
It was a real work of art, and looked like a delicate chinese lantern.
My plan was to wait until the wasps had vacated it and cut it down, clean it out and keep it.
Just before I had the chance to do this there was a terrific down pour of rain and it totaly ruined the nest.

Well it was beautiful while it lasted!

Spirit Home?

These two are my newest dolls/figures.
Hand dyes fabric and hand/machine embroidered with beads and other embellishment.
It is believed in some cultures that dolls may be the home of certain spirits, and often these dolls are "fed" by the person chosen to take care of them.
Incense may be lit, flowers present and gifts of food/wine or spirits left for the dolls to enjoy.

See more about them by following the link below.

Art Dolls

Illo Friday "Cake"

| Published Saturday, May 27, 2006 by Jane.

Wedding Cake

This is one of my efforts at ceramics a few years ago.
The lower layer is a dungeon kitted out with a rack, chains and other items of torture/pleasure.

Oh dear.......what does that say about me???

Great Comic art for sale signed by the Artist Bryan Talbot

See this great artwork here:

Bryan Talbot

Photo Friday "The Road"

| Published Sunday, May 21, 2006 by Jane.

Wet Sundays, we have so many and they make spring feel more like winter.

A new ACEO

| Published Saturday, May 20, 2006 by Jane.

This is my latest called "Visitation"
Find her here:
Visitation

Angels and Devils for Illo Friday

| Published Sunday, May 14, 2006 by Jane.

Angel Princess

Three Strange Angels

These three below were from a series that I did a while ago but I think they are worth showing again!

Watercolour on bristol board

Well as anyone who knows me can tell you, this is a favorite subject of mine!
For now here is an angel, pretty and I guess conventional but I will probably have some more coming up in the next few days so check back.
The one above is ink and pencil on watercolour paper.

Look for my "Strange Angel and 3 Spirit Birds" painting on ebay to.
Go here to see "Strange Angel Painting"

Another Sacred Shrine

| Published Wednesday, May 03, 2006 by Jane.

During the Easter bankholiday we went to Abbotsbury, West Dorset.
It has a lovely shingle beach and on a hill high above the village is St. Catherines Chapel.
It was built, like many other Christian churches, on top of the original Pagan Temple.
The early Christian missionaries would naturally try to choose a patron saint that continued, as closely as possible, the pagan dedication of the temple.
The closest Goddess to St. Catherine would have been 'goddess of the silver wheel', Arianrhod.

There is nothing inside, no pews, alter etc. just a dirt floor but it has a very distinct atmosphere.
They still hold services there but I guess the people just stand on the dirt floor.
Here are a few pics I took with my cell phone, so not brilliant.
Several people had left little offerings, flowers, poems and lit candles in the niches in the wall.
Below someone had left a little Icon of St. Catherine.

Albino flowers??

| Published by Jane.

Snakeshead Fritillery
(hope i've spelt that right!)
These are the ones that Charles Rennie Mackintosh like to paint but they are usually checkered light and dark mauve, can you get a white variety?
Anyway they are in my garden and they look great.

Illustration Friday "Under the sea"

| Published Monday, May 01, 2006 by Jane.

"I wish I was so far away,

on some far distant shore.

I'd cast my troubles in the deep, deep sea and be troubled by troubles no more.

Oh just to sit and watch each wave,

and wave each wave........adieu"

I wrote this poem a few years ago when I had a troubled mind.

I thought of the messages that people put in bottles and cast into the sea, I wanted to offer up my troubles to the deep and see if they would wash up on some other shore, transformed by the power of the waves, perhaps into things more positive?

I wonder how many "troubles" lay on the sea bed, slumbering?

I love the sea.

Folk Art Icon

| Published by Jane.

Cosmic Tears Icon

This is one of my "visionary" works, painted as a result of inner vision often as a result of deep meditation.

Here is the write up I have put on ebay, where she is up for sale:

"A gentle eyed folk style icon, an original acrylic painting on box canvas, measuring 11.7x18cm and 1.5cm in depth.

Lit with soulful inner light she addresses the viewer with a searching direct gaze.
Haloed with 5 spirals, each one orbited with three moons, she has cosmic tears that bejewel her hair.

This gentle painting, beautiful in its simplicity, has raised decoration that is not easy to show in the scans and on screen, and the “tears” in her hair glint blue and green as they catch the light adding to its charm.

This is an original work and not a print, on box canvas with small studs on the edges that secures the canvas. It is ready to hang, no need for framing making it light weight and ideal for shipping"

See more here: ICON

New ACEO's in Fabric Collage & Beads

| Published by Jane.

The Sentiments Series

This are the new aceo's I have on offer on ebay, they are very richly embriodered and beaded and fantastic to touch!
They are too thick to fit into a standard trading card sleeve though, not that you'd want to put them in plastic.
Bid here:

Fabric ACEO's