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‘Into the Light’, part of my new Cornish series. Porthmeor sunsets lingering in my mind.
FAIRIES & THE DEAD Evans Wentz (1911) recorded the Highland belief in #fairy hosts as the evil dead & Cornish Peskies as the souls of unbaptised babies, appearing at Twilight in the form of moths #FolkloreThursday #GothicFairies Images: Pirner 1888; Highgate; white plume moth
According to Cornish folklore, young girls were often transported to fairyland after breaking fern fronds. They would be confronted by a 'fairy widower' and would agree to look after his son with the promise:
'For a year and a day,
I promise to stay'
#FolkloreThursday
1/ Cornish ladies used roses for divination. Walking backwards into a garden on Midsummer's eve (as you do), they would pick a rose, then place it in a bag... [A plate from 'Flora Londinensis', by William Curtis.] #FolkloreThursday #PlantLore
Other designs are purely aesthetic. Sparkpaw(Bakugou) is based on the Laperm while Stickypaw(Sero) is a Cornish Rex. Sometimes I just look at a cat and be like, yep that's definately *insert character here*.
Kirsten Elswood's "Seed Head, Newlyn Beach". Kirsten has now moved from Somerset to Cornwall and is getting around new locations!
#cornwallart #emergingartist #popularartist #contemporaryartist #artonline #environmentalartist #natureartist #popularcornishartist
A finished painting of St Mawes #oilpainting #stmawes #cornishart
Chapel Point 1 - oil on paper going to the framer @chalkgallery @ingenuemagazine @coastmag #cornwall #cornishcove #cornishcoast
A third sketch from my Cornish #sketchbook. One more coming soon . . .
#Cornish #Cornwall #sketch
According to Cornish legend, St Michaels Mt in Cornwall was built by the giant Cormoran. A local boy dug a trench into the side of the island & blew his horn so loud Cormoran woke and rolled down the hill. The boy would earn the name "Jack the Giant Killer." #FolkloreThursday
Rooftops and chimney pots! A detail from the underpainting of my next acrylic painting...🏠
#cornwall #cornishart #paintingdetail #underpainting #wip #paintingwip #rooftops #chimneypots #art
Spotted along the Cornish coast yesterday... #cornwall
Grilling New Hampshire style- in an abandoned chimney deep in a mosquito filled glen. Not pictured, me in a chiton making Greek god poses with a spatula, because Cornish. #cornishcolony
Lucia Fairchild Fuller’s mural “Plymouth Women” for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, in a former Grange hall (now a really junky vintage store) in Plainfield NH, a few doors down from the town hall with Parrish’s stage set. Got that weird de Chavannes vibe. #cornishcolony
St Michael’s Mount, Marazion.
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#stmichaelsmount #stmichaelsmountcastle #marazion #cornwallart #cornwallpainting #cornishgallery #whistlefishgallery #illustration #drawing #watercolour
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A Bwca (or Knocker) is a creature recognised by Welsh, Cornish and even Devon folklore, they are believed to be close cousins of the Irish leprechaun and the English brownie. Their legend is widespread and tales of Tommy-Knockers have even been recorded as far as the US.