PEN & INK DRAWINGS

International Teacher, Author, Painter and Forest Witch in Europe and Globally

By early 2013 I decided that I had overdosed on colour. I imposed some restrictions on myself and started making pen and ink drawings (black and white) on a fairly small scale (A4 paper, called "Letter" size in the US).

For almost a year I have carried a small bottle of black ink in my backpack at all times. Other people go through customs (at airports) with beauty products in their hand luggage but I put bottles of black ink in my small transparent pouch!

This page shows some of these drawings "on-the-go", many of them made at other people's kitchen tables in different locations. Many (but not all of them) are based on dreams.

 

 MY RAVEN MOTHER

I have a connection to corvids. I pay close attention to both ravens and crows, but also other members of the same family. May you feel held lovingly by your animal mothers in times of turmoil and shifting sands...

International Teacher, Author, Painter and Forest Witch in Europe and Globally

 MY BIRD SKULL VIOLIN

Drawing inspired by a dream. I was a tiny baby. I could not yet walk or crawl but I had a violin made from a fragile bird skull. It was my companion in a life where my greatest soul craving was music.

 

 

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FERAL WOMAN SERIES

 As women age, we lose the ability to give birth but we develop other super powers: we grow antlers or horns, we stand up for Life in all its manifestations, we turn ourselves into a sanctuary for all vulnerable and wild things...

 


 

 Whale Women

 

 

 


 

International Teacher, Author, Painter and Forest Witch in Europe and Globally

International Teacher, Author, Painter and Forest Witch in Europe and Globally

 

 MAGPIE MAGICIAN

 THREE OWLS

 TAKING LESSONS FROM RAVENS

 

 

 

 

LOOKING DEATH IN THE FACE (A daily practice)

 GROWING ANTLERS

 

 

 KNITTING A SERMON

BATTY 

 WHEN THERE IS ANOTHER SELF TRYING TO CLIMB OUT

 

 

 International Teacher, Author, Painter and Forest Witch in Europe and Globally

International Teacher, Author, Painter and Forest Witch in Europe and Globally 

BEAR DISMEMBERED ME - NOW I DISMEMBER BEAR

 SWAN MAIDEN

 International Teacher, Author, Painter and Forest Witch in Europe and Globally

 International Teacher, Author, Painter and Forest Witch in Europe and Globally

 

 

SELF PORTRAIT - MY RAVEN SELF

If we are all shape-shifters, as some traditions suggest, then all of us are "all things" and nothing is ever "only" what it seems. There is always much we do NOT see. We only see facets, aspects, moments frozen in time. We never see the totality of Creation and our role within it.

That was one idea I was processing after attending both a solar eclipse and (partial) lunar eclipse (on two different continents) within the space of two weeks.

(October 2023)

A  FORGOTTEN FOREST GOD

Please tell me a story about him! Please intuit his name! He would like to return to our awareness at a this time of ecological crisis. His mission is to re-wild us so we no longer see ourselves as separate from fellow beings. Nature is also "our nature". And climate change means a complete change of our social climate.

He has a lot to say!

Enjoy Thor's Day! (Did you know that Norse god Thor is a Herbalist and Healer, in the Old Norse sources?!)

 GODDESS NEST

She was a Bird Goddess.

She is every goddess.

Her womb a nest!  And us

ferociously independent beings 

Experience our own empty nest

Before long

we return to Her nest

 

International Teacher, Author, Painter and Forest Witch in Europe and Globally

 International Teacher, Author, Painter and Forest Witch in Europe and Globally

 PLAY DATE

My child self dreamed herself all the way back to the Paleolithic Era, for a play date with the animals depicted in rock art and caves!

She also reached into the rock to touch the hands of her Deep Ancestors, (those whose names were never written down).

Temporarily Time dissolved. Some say Time is an illusion.

Am I now one of those little humans immortalized on cave walls?

Did I leave a child-size handprint for archaeologists to scrutinize?

PREGNANT PAUSE

This is another sketch of The Pregnant Hag.

Her womb is the Void where entire universes gestate. Her language is vibration, her bird companions sing her into being every day. She is both soul conductor and midwife. She is the cosmic gardener: she tends the pathways between worlds and cooks up medicine from the weeds, salves for souls.

I stood by our Elder Tree yesterday and talked to her about The Pregnant Hag. She required drastic pruning earlier this year and is now rebirthing herself. She taught me that we are always at some stage of this process. Rebirth is not a, dramatic event happening a few times in a human lifetime, it is always going on. And that is how we become a Cauldron where medicine for our world simmers.

 

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