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The Story of the Rabbit

31 Thursday May 2012

Posted by Haloquin in Art Craft and Beauty, Faery, Magic

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Art Craft and Beauty, Artwork, Faery, Feyhearted path, Goddess, Hare, Magic, musings, Painting, process, Rabbit

Painting - Spirit Rabbit Gate

A butterfly enjoys the artwork which captures the spirit of a being who travels between the worlds and brings magic and love into our lives.

When I finished writing my Faery Heart book I had a dream for the artwork on the cover – a gateway between two trees through which the magic of Faery would shine. I took up my brush and painted the first of my Faery Gates series, pouring magic into each brush-stroke as a prayer in pigment to bridge the worlds and allow enchantment to pour through for each person that gazed upon it.

My flat is now full of these gates, they flow from my brush and feel like coming home. But the second that I began… it remained formless for two years. I painted the faery-light but there was something missing. So I painted others and waited.

And then my bunny died.

She reappeared in the painting. Finally, it was complete.

Domino was a rabbit, but in the picture she also becomes a moongazing hare, carrying the magic of the ability to burrow into the dark places for healing and the sacred swiftness and stillness which is twinned in each of the long-eared Goddess-beasts across the neo-pagan world.

The hare has long been seen as a familiar, or a form, of the witch, wise-woman, magic-worker, the one who crosses the gap between the worlds beneath the full moon’s light to bring back knowledge and power into our realm. This picture is one of reflection, of becoming aware of other worlds and other possibilities deep within ourselves and within the heart of the world. It is an image of love and the peace before action. As a painting it holds all that I poured into it and all that you find within it. As a prayer, a spell, it carries the magic of the otherworlds and the blessings of the spirit-world into our lives. And it honours the hare, the rabbit, the Goddess and those that we have loved and lost who are never far away…

I am producing a limited run of 50 canvas prints, hand-made, mounted, numbered and signed by me. When they’re gone I won’t be printing any more like this!

To own a beautiful, limited edition print of a sacred piece of art, follow this link to my Etsy listing!

Life, love and bunnies

17 Saturday Jul 2010

Posted by Haloquin in Reflections

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Life has been busy, as usual!

I moved a month ago, and both me and the rabbit have settled in fine, albeit only for a few months until we find a more long-term place than my mum’s house.

I had thought the rabbit would be easier than a cat, but it turns out that, although she is easier to contain (one cage rather than needing a decent sized territory), she requires more looking after and can’t be left alone for more than about 12 hours. So I’m a little stuck in that I can’t really go anywhere for any length of time even when I’ve a few days off. As a result: missing my sweetheart.

It’ll be alright though, we’re only apart for a few months and then we’ll be finding somewhere together, possibly sharing with friends. We’ll see.

I’ve been learning to knit lace, finishing my FeyHearted book, working in a Travel Agents, continuing my studies, learning the keyboard, doing pen-ink-watercolour paintings for the book and to sell, joining a local Artist’s collective… and missing my friends.

I always wish I had a community, a group of people who live locally, or even a group of friends who all get on. I had that in Wales, but not here. It’d be nice to build something here, but I’m struggling to work out how!!! Hopefully something will come of the artist’s collective.

Yeah, really, life is currently rather solitary and quite productive. It’ll be interesting to see where I end up!

Whats that word… for a journey without a map? An exploration? A stepping-out without a destination?

Oh yeah, ‘adventure’.

Thats what this is I guess… an adventure!

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