Birch Tree Birthing Chamber  (60 x 42 cm)  SOLD (but I am looking into having Giclee Prints made!)

This painting created itself and along the way I learned that birch trees were used, once upon a time (and the memory lives on in mythical time!) to create chambers of (or huts for) initiation. Most likely for girls and young women - as we know for a fact those evolved birch trees. A structure was created, a dream incubation chamber resembling a ribcage. A person would sleep and dream there and birth their new selves into this world. Silver Birch, Owl and The Full Moon were allies for this process.

Birthing our new self is of course a good activity for pandemic times and Lockdown!

Sitting In Council with Animal Gods: The Monkey Mother  (60 x 42 cm)   £275

I recently wrote a blog titled "Sitting In Council With Animal Gods" and there was a Monkey Goddess in particular I locked eyes with. I told someone who said: why don't you paint her?

Here She is!  

I invite you all to connect to the Monkey Mother Goddess!

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 The Milk of Symbiosis (Mother Amanita)   (60 x 42 cm)    £275

I am a great admirer (across Time) of the Swedish artist John Bauer, who had a deep love for the Forest and painted from a place of seeing what remained hidden to others. The Forest is my greatest teacher and the place where I do my deepest dreaming and visioning. 

John Bauer and his young family died tragically as a ship sank in a storm on Lake Vattern in southern Sweden in 1918. His work remains in print and continues to delight (and transport) many people to the Land of Tomtar and Trolls!

 The Goddess of Our Solar System   (60 x 42 cm)   £225

The astronomical summer solstice is on Saturday. I will work with this deity, seek her guidance on what is unfolding on her blue-green emerald planet and reflect deeply on finding the balance, walking the continuum between day and night, wound and blessing, healing and cure, procreation and hibernation, life and death, obligation and the sheer joy of being - and much else.

And I invite you to join me, if you wish! Approach her with reverence - She is powerful!!

Barn Owl Dreaming   SOLD

For a few nights running Barn Owl Woman appeared to me just before I fell asleep. She sat in a corner of my bedroom and appeared to watch over me. Owls have a mixed reputation in myth and folklore. Seen by some as wise and as a bird of Darkness and Omen of Death by others. They are associated with both witchcraft and healing

Throughout history and across many cultures, people have regarded Owls with fascination and awe. Few other creatures have so many different and contradictory beliefs about them. Owls have been both feared and venerated, despised and admired, considered wise and foolish, and associated with witchcraft and medicine, the weather, birth and death. Speculation about Owls began in earliest folklore, too long ago to date, but passed down by word of mouth over generations. The barn owl ( Tyto alba) is the most widely distributed species of owl and one of the most widespread of all birds.

Meilikki - A personal interpretation of the Finnish Mother of the Forest 2020 

(60 x 42 cm)  £255

Mielikki is a Goddess of the Forests and the Hunt. She is said to have created the bear (the brown bear, not polar bear as depicted here!) . She is the Forest Healer who heals the paws of animals who have escaped traps and she rescues chicks that have fallen from their nests. Her name is derived from the old Finnish word mielu which means luck. She is also known as Metsänemä, Mother of the Forest. Brown bears were the most sacred of animals in Finland. Her husband is the forest god Tapio.