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… An Angry Queen Was She

Here is my latest artwork ‘… An Angry Queen Was She’  forming part of my Tam Lin series.
Thomas the Rhymer, the 13th century Scottish laird introduced best the Queen of Elphame
in all her splendour when he said:

“All hail, thou mighty Queen of Heaven!
  For your peer on earth I never did see.”

A-Side B-Side Exhibition

I am taking part in the group show ‘Dreaming of a Black & White Christmas’
at the A-side B-side Gallery in Hackney. Private View December the 7th, 6pm-10pm.


I will be showing “A Rose but Only Two” as a limited edition screen print, which I have printed especially for the show. The edition is limited to ten prints, four of which will be available for purchase exclusively to the show.

Hope to see you there.

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Tam Lin “A Rose but Only Two”

Pen & Ink

© 2012

Bittersweet

I’ve fallen somewhat behind with my posts recently.
However, I’ve been deeply engrossed in researching and working on my latest series of artworks a series of botanical illustrations entitled “Bittersweet.”
 
The flora which make up the series “Bittersweet” all share in common a beauty, albeit, only as a veil.
Their beauty is but skin deep.
Each of the flowers having something much darker, more sinister than first meets the eye.

Indeed, the series takes it’s title from the common name for Woody Nightshade, Bittersweet.


Below are two excerpts from “Bittersweet”;

Convolvulus ~ Bellbind or Bindweed:
This beautiful flower can be seen late Spring till the end of Summer.
The common name comes from the plant’s creeping, winding vines which “bind” themselves suffocating and choking with its beauty the flora to which it hugs.


Digitalis purpurea ~ The Common Foxglove or Deadman’s Bells.
This bewitching flower can be seen flowering early Summer and sometimes later in the season.
The entire plant is toxic including the roots and seeds.

A Rose But Only Two …

Here is the third artwork from my Tam Lin series entitled “A Rose But Only Two”.
This piece forms a diptych with the artwork “Tam Lin”.

“She’d not pulled a double rose, a rose but only two
When up there came young Tam Lin says “Lady, pull no more.”