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"Bocanje" - the ancient roots of traditional female tattoing among women in the Balkans.
A thread for today's #writing & #symbols theme by @FolkloreThurs #FolkloreThursday
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Hello #VisibleWomen! I'm Nata, an illustrator with a passion for folklore, dark corners of history & the wilderness. I have a thing for strong women & gnarled trees.
Creator of #aCompendiumOfWitches ✨
🌿https://t.co/5GBlv3D0Wg
Behind the scenes: https://t.co/QKPokY7KOd
As her feet thread through the mire
Trenchant and grave,
She counts
A trunk, a stone, a crumbling rib.
@LeeshaHannigan Parabola. It inspired me to paint this - it's an old piece but still one of my favourite ones.
It's #PortfolioDay! Hi, I'm Nata, an illustrator with a passion for folklore, dark corners of history & the wilderness. I have a thing for strong women & gnarled trees.
Creator of #aCompendiumOfWitches ✨
🌿https://t.co/S1ymud7OIx
Behind the scenes: https://t.co/BJEytwRc8G
"Beneath you birch with silver bark
And boughs so pendulous and fair,
The brook falls scattered down the rock:
and all is mossy there."
~ S. T. Coleridge
A faroese selkie for #FolkloreThursday 🐚
From a story I wrote and illustrated for Encounters with the Imaginary vol.III, by @BoneshakerPress
So happy and humbled to see my cover for "The Raven's Ballad" nominated for a Chelsey Award!🖤✨
#tbt to one a personal favourite, Threading Thunder.
The intention behind this illustration was to explore the intimate and sometimes spiritual relationship between music and listener in an everyday, ordinary setting, that is so often saturated with noise.