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October in the chair...
I really love Neil Gaiman's writings, and his short story 'October in the Chair' is one of my all-time favourites... (you can find it in this collection if you're curious. Go buy it its wo...
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Rapunzel...
'...Rapunzel grew into the most beautiful child under the sun. When she was twelve years old, the enchantress shut her into a tower, which lay in a forest, and had neither stairs nor door, but quit...
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A beautiful occupation...
...The fifth planet was very strange. It was the smallest of all. There was just enough room on it for a street lamp and a lamplighter. The little prince was not able to reach any explanation of th...
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Witch and wolves...
Im very grateful that this one worked out, as Ive had a kind of artist's block for the past few weeks, and havent been able to make anything work on paper, which has been very fru...
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Morpheus, Matthew and Delerium
This was drawn for my lovely friend Maria, who I was delighted to get in our work's annual 'Secret Santa' dip - like me, she's a biiiig fan of Neil Gaiman so it was the perfect excuse for me to dra...
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Drosselmeyer's workshop...
...As the hour neared midnight, and the snow fell heavily outside the window, Drosselmeyer put the final touches to his newest creation - The Nutcracker... ...I'm not a particularly big fan of ball...
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Be a beacon....
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. (William Shakespeare)............ This was drawn earlier in the year, but as it was a secret Xmas present (sssshhhhh) I didn't want to post it...
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Little Red Riding Hood...
At last she came knocking on the door, rat tat tat."Who's there?";Little Red Riding Hood heard the hoarse voice of the wolf and thought that her grandmother must have caught a cold.... The wolf dis...
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Hans the Hedgehog and the King
I've loved the story of Hans the Hedgehog for many years now, since watching Anthony Minghella's enchanting re-telling of the tale in his Storyteller series when I was little...In the original Brot...
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Jack and the Beanstalk...
...On his way to market, Jack met a mysterious stranger with a very tall hat, a very long scarf, and a cart piled high with extraordinary things... The stranger offered Jack five magic beans in ex...
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Miss Havisham...
...But, I saw that everything within my view which ought to be white, had been white long ago, and had lost its lustre, and was faded and yellow. I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had wi...
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The Sandcastle man...
This was a birthday commission - a spin on Neil Gaiman's fantastic Sandman graphic novels.......and on the character of Morpheus, the Sandman himself... Yeeeees, its a very silly joke (it wasn't ac...
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La Loba... La Huesera...
Recently I've been re-discovering and dipping into Clarissa Pinkola Estes' extraordinary book on mythology, creativity and female empowerment - Women who Run with the Wolves... Early in the book, s...
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...a bespangled clown...
one winter afternoon(at the magical hourwhen is becomes if)a bespangled clownstanding on eighth streethanded me a flower.Nobody, it's safeto say, observed him butmyself; and why? becausewithout any...
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Driftwood...
..the world beneath the sea was blurred......cold, cold...I do not believe I truly saw her... I cannot. A dream, or madness, the lack of air, the blow upon the head that's all she was.But wh...
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To sweep the cobwebs...
Ms Millicent Beatrice Owens was quite the intrepid explorer.So when she announced that she intended to be 'tossed up in a basket, seventeen times as high as the moon', her friends were unperturbed,...
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A safe haven...
For many years, a small community of expert gardeners and jam-and-marmalade-makers lived in a secret location, deep within in the Woods of Arduenna, far from the big smoking cities and magically hi...
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A bracing midnight drive....
Mr Stephen Spindrift - amateur inventor and and antiquarian bookshop owner - put the finishing touches to his new two-seater eco-friendly motorcycle - ( which ran on biodiesel ) and decided that h...
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Who has come to sing us carols
Where is my grandmother?There's nobody here but we two, my darling.Now a great howling rose up around them, near, very near, as close as the kitchen garden, the howling of a multitude of wolves; sh...
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Skellig...
I found him in the garage on a Sunday afternoon. ...He was lying there in the darkness behind the tea chests, in the dust and dirt. It was as if he'd been there forever. He was filthy and pale and...
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Gathering together in silence
...to listen to the song of the moon-rise.............'Looking out of the window at the burnt face of the sky, she thought to herself: Is there, for such an hour in the evening, a song? A song, who...
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Jacob tells a story...
This is my second appreciative nod to Messrs Gilliam and Ledger - Terry Gilliam's Brothers Grimm is one of my all-time favourite films - and I just love Heath's Ledger's excitable and thoroughly en...
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Seeking an audience...
...with the wonderful Wizard of Oz...This is just a quickee I started doodling ideas for a stencil-type design for the Tin Man (I forget why) and the Scarecrow and Lion followed soon after.....
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We keep the wolves outside...
...by living well......A boy came out from the village to build up her hearth for the night an hour ago and the kitchen crackles with busy firelight. She has her Bible for company, she is a pious o...
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Red Riding Hood + the Huntsman
...This young man had a remarkable object in his pocket. It was a compass. She looked at the little round glass face in the palm of his hand and watched the wavering needle with a vague wonder. He...
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Fearnot and The Terrible Thing
... This was inspired by a tale from Jim Henson's magical Storyteller series (which were, in their turn, inspired by old European folk tales..) - that of Fearnot - a boy who sets out to learn what...
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Mrs Whitaker and Galahad...
Once more, Neil Gaiman (master storyteller and all round lovely chap) provided the inspiration for one of my drawings this is Mrs Whitaker and Galahad, from his short story 'Chivalry'.... An...
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Maiden, Mother and Crone...
...Three generations of folk-or-fairy-tale women...~ Baba Yaga, a fascinating character from Slavic mythology, the pregnant princess from the old German folktale of The Three Ravens (who was magica...
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The Huntsman and Granny...
...The freshly falling snow blew in eddies about the kitchen garden and the young man stepped delicately up the snowy path to the door.......A boy came out from the village to build up her hearth f...
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Eduardo, Munro and the Griffin
...For his first trick, Mr Erastus (with help from his assistant Munro) astonished the audience by conjuring a winged creature a Griffin! - out of his hat... ...Listening to a surfeit of Nic...
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Carmen and Mordecai...
...Carmen began to sing again, softly at first, unsure of herself, but with growing confidence. The fridge started growing, too. It soared up, higher and higher. It was notjust growing in the ...
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The Box of Delights...
...After the service at Tatchester Cathedral, Kay lit the way home to the Christmas celebrations at Seekings... Watching The Box of Delights has been a much looked-forward-to part of most Christma...
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Sherlock Holmes...
...Seeing Robert Downey Jr's Sherlock Holmes (which I loved! and which has had me humming The Rocky Road to Dublin ever since) has got me happily absorbed in re-reading Holmes' exploits again... an...
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Persephone...
....Persephone was the daughter of Demeter and Zeus... In the Olympian telling, the gods Hermes, Ares, Apollo and Hephaestus had all wooed Persephone; but Demeter rejected all their gifts and hid h...
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Little Red-Cap tames the Wolf.
...Her curiosity and compassion overcame her fear and she reached out... The Wolf, calmed by the small girl, gently laid his head in her hand.... This was partly drawn while sitting quietly and hap...
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Ms Devereux, Jacques and Lucas
In life, Ms Devereux had been an able seamstress, with a bright eye and nimble fingers.After death, (although finding herself in ghostly form), saw she no reason to relinquish the hobby which had g...
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Borealis and the Thing-Finder.
...It was during the Great Depression, when many people who had never lacked for anything learned what it felt like to want and not be able to get, and when people who already knew how to do, made...
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Elsie and the sea-witch...
...The townsfolk were wary of the old woman who made her home in the cave by the shore... Whisperings of witchcraft, of spells and evil-doings caught quickly on the sea-breeze and nestled in the sh...
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Encounter...
This was drawn for my brilliant friend Rhona, who loves squirrels, and asked me to draw her one... I couldn't resist sneaking a ring-tailed lemur in there too. Working while watching the captivatin...
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Beauty and the Beast retired..
...In their golden years Sanford and Eleanor spent their afternoons pottering round the vast gardens surrounding the castle, and cultivating prize-winning roses.......This was something of a quickl...
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Sapsorrow...
To be fully human, people ought to have as authentic a relationship as possible with others. They should know that in their deepest being they are intrinsically free to reconstruct and transform th...
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The Three Ravens...
Tonight an ill wind is blowing, blowingSomething wicked comes this wayTo the woods your daughter's going, goingFor what she will not sayI hear a fire is glowing, glowingAnd women dancing around Why...
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Doctor Faustus....
Under the stars which prick us and call usConnect us to hope that perfection's within usHere on the ground we're reckless and hopelessDamned by the slip of a pen.~ James ................And all tho...
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Ms Devereux and Eduard...
...They spent many a quiet afternoon together that autumn, drinking rose tea and discussing long-forgotten fragments of poetry, while the wind gusted outside and the bright copper leaves fell.In hi...
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Cyrano De Bergerac...
....There is one thing that goes with me when tonight I enter my final lodging, sweeping the bright Stars from the blue threshold with my salute. A thing unstained, unsullied by the brute Broken na...
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