Katherine Soutar part sprite part dandelion clockさんのイラストまとめ

Absolutely wonderful day at @MyArtshack helping some lovely people explore the exciting possibilities of gel plate printing, including making and using their own stencils from acetate. Slightly knackered now as I may have been running on adrenaline and caffeine. Slightly.

Hello #VisibleWomen

I’m Katherine.

An illustrator specialising in themes of storytelling, folktale and mythology. I work in a number of different media. But always on paper...

At the world’s birth hazels grew which held all the knowledge of the universe. They grew around the Well of Wisdom (Tobar Segais) in which lived a salmon, which ate up the hazelnuts which fell into its waters, and became the famed Salmon of Knowledge

#FolkloreThursday
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Beware coastal graveyards at night... As drowned mariners from Davey Jones locker wander there looking for a grave to finally rest in.

I based this face on the death mask of Goethe, I like to think he would be amused.

#WyrdWednesday

Little Bess here is the resident ghost at The Prospect Inn in Exeter, Devon. A lonely presence commemorating a short sad life, she sometimes appears on the top set of stairs clutching her strange little doll and looking wistful...
#WyrdWednesday
Art self for Devon ghost tales.

The New Forest. Home of Gods, Witches and Monsters. Including the strange ‘Stratford Lyon’ a mysterious lionlike creature wrenched from the ground by a local landowner who saw its huge red antlers sticking up from the earth and couldn’t resist pulling..

#MythologyMonday
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Being ‘Fairy led’ was not always pleasant, it could mean a fugue state where people would sometimes pine away to nothing...

My mother often described me as being ‘away with the fairies’ and meant a more benign state of dreaming though.
#folkloreThursday

Words Yeats. Art self

Finn McCools Fingers (or "Shantemon Stone Row") are a set of five standing stones on Shantemon mountain in County Cavan.

Their name is derived from the legend that giant Celtic warrior Fionn mac Cumhaill lost a hand in battle.

art self for Cavan Folktales

#StandingStoneSunday

For #Caturday this week a blast from my creative past...

I once used to paint a lot of cats, mostly on handmade paper for greeting cards and paperweights. I have moved on to a different way of working and whole new world of imagery now, although I always liked working with words

The New Forest. Home of Gods, Witches and Monsters. Including the strange ‘Stratford Lyon’ a mysterious lionlike creature wrenched from the ground by a local landowner who saw its huge red antlers sticking up from the earth and couldn’t resist pulling..

#FolkloreThursday
🎨self