tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36533015175289492642024-02-22T23:43:32.850-08:00Notes from The RookeryDanielle Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00570796614148198253noreply@blogger.comBlogger261125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653301517528949264.post-54177649037573754412017-09-02T07:48:00.003-07:002017-09-02T07:48:33.211-07:00The Green Wheel Oracle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Goodness me, it's been a long time since there was an update here! That's mostly because I have been so very busy working away on the The Green Wheel Oracle Deck, and finally, after 5 years in the making, I can announce that it's nearly ready to go. </div>
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It's wildly exciting, and a little bit scary too. I've launched the pre-order campaign on Indiegogo here: <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-green-wheel-oracle/x/8868138#/" target="_blank">The Green Wheel Oracle</a></div>
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<b><u>So, what exactly is The Green Wheel Oracle?</u></b></div>
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It's a set of 45 full colour divination cards. The deck is divided into three sets: The Wheel cards, depicting the 8 festivals of the wheel of the year (Imbolc, Spring Equinox, Beltane, Midsummer, Lammas, Autumn Equinox, Samhain, Midwinter), The Moon Cards, depicting the 13 moons of the year, and 24 Companion cards, depicting animal and plants allies.</div>
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Is divination fortune telling? No, not in the sense of telling the future. What they are used for is gaining insight into particular situations, suggesting ways you might look at things, and for helping to understand your own role in the great web of life. This particular deck, with it's emphasis on the cycles of the earth and spiritual connection to the land, can also be used to help you journey deeper into this connection.</div>
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It comes with a booklet to help you understand the meanings of each card, and to suggest ways of working with them, but over time this becomes a very intuitive process, and as you get a feel for your own set, it becomes very personal.</div>
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This is where I really need your help! I need to raise the funds to print and produce it, as explained in the video. I'm hoping to do this solely with pre-orders - I'm not asking for 'money for nothing'. However, there are lots of other exciting perks offered with the crowdfunding campaign, and I will be releasing several of the original paintings for sale over the course of the campaign.</div>
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Of course, I realise that not everyone is able to contribute financially, and that doesn't matter at all. Spreading the word, and sharing the campaign on your networks is just as important, and I would be enormously grateful if you could do that.</div>
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Most of all, I am just so thankful to everybody who has supported me by buying my work over the years, making it possible for me to have reached this point where I am on the brink of launching this project!</div>
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Thankyou 💚💚 </div>
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Witch Hazel (Hamamelis x intermedia 'Jelena')</div>
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Those of you who have followed me for a while will know that I am obsessed with plants, and particularly their uses in folklore, medicine and magic.</div>
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I am NOT a qualified herbalist, although I have read and researched extensively over the years, (and I AM a qualified Horticulturalist ) and I am certainly not giving any advice on medicinal uses of plants, but there are plenty of other things to use them for. One of the things I have spent a lot of time experimenting with over the past year is incense. I've used herbs as dry, loose incense for a long time, but I decided I wanted to try and make it into slower burning blocks, without any of the unpleasant added 'binders' that commercial incense uses. </div>
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I'm also a stickler for using only locally grown plants, especially if the incense is to be used in your work. I was lucky to have a huge 'potions cupboard' of my own to ransack, but it's easy to start gathering your own ingredients, even at this time of year. There are crucial rules to follow when wild foraging - Never take anything rare or endangered. Never dig up and destroy a plant. Never take more than 10% of the plant, and especially when harvesting slow growing plants (such as bark from trees) always try to take it from already cut wood, or wind blown branches. There isn't really any way of getting around the rules for harvesting roots - it is illegal to dig them up in the wild. The best thing to do is to grow the plants in your own garden if possible (easy for things such as Elecampane, and Valerian) or find a landowner who will give you permission to gather a small amount from their land. Failing that, you can purchase any herb you like from a reputable, ethically sourced supplier, but personally, I prefer to leave it out if I can't find it locally.</div>
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I spend my days out and about, and am constantly registering new plants and sources of leaves or flowers in the back of my mind, so I know where to go back to when I need something. You don't need to wait till the spring. All these ingredients shown here have been collected in the last week - the first week of January!</div>
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Gorse, or Furze as it tends to be called here in Devon is pretty much in flower for 12 months of the year. It is traditionally used to make wine, but has a lovely coconut scent that works well in teas and incense too. Beware the the vicious spines when gathering!</div>
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These fungi grow primarily on dead Ash wood. They make a traditional tinder starter for fires, and were supposedly used to transport a tiny ember of fire all day in order to kindle a new fire elsewhere. I haven't tried that, but they can be used as a charcoal block substitute for burning incense (I can't bear the chemical smell of the charcoal tablets you can buy)</div>
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This is not a moss, but a lichen. I've written about this before, but I'll do so again here. Traditionally used in the perfume industry as a fixative, it is gathered commercially in parts of Europe. Here in the high clear air Dartmoor it grows everywhere, particularly on Oak and Blackthorn, and even on my electric fence wire!</div>
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It is REALLY important to remember that lichen grows very slowly, and as can be seen in the photo below, there are many species of lichen, all looking very similar, often growing all together on the same twig, and some of them can be very rare indeed. Make sure you can properly identify which one is Oakmoss. This is the best time of year for harvesting - winter storms bring it down from the trees in large amounts, both loose and on broken twigs. There is NEVER any need to pick lichen off the trees. If you wait till after a heavy rain storm, there will be as much as you could ever use lying around on the ground below the trees. Don't worry if it is muddy - it's pretty robust and will stand a rinse in cold water before you dry it.</div>
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WARNING - Oakmoss can cause an allergic reaction in some people.</div>
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I use crab apples a lot, both in amulets and often as a base for the 'wet mix' of incense. I slice them horizontally so they dry in slices, showing the 5 pointed 'apple star', and then use them dry or rehydrate them (usually in a wine mix) .</div>
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When I began experimenting with solid incense, I couldn't really find much info, so it was a long process of trial and error, writing notes and refining techniques till I came up with a recipe that I felt worked. Initially I looked at methods for making <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyphi" target="_blank">Kyphi, </a> an Ancient Egyptian sacred incense. Although I didn't feel any of those ancient ingredients were appropriate to my work ( I particularly wanted to make incenses that were of THIS land, these ancient granite hills) it was the method that interested me. If you want to experiment yourself, and learn more about the basic process, a set of videos on how to make Kyphi, by Mirth and Reverence on youtube, were by far the most informative and enjoyable. You can find them here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAsT8y36qVc" target="_blank">Kyphi making</a>.</div>
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I have developed my own method now, and have been working recently on a special set of incense to go with each of the 13 moons of the oracle deck (specifically blended for their properties to help work with each card). However, I thought I'd share a recipe with you, to make one of my favourite blends. You'll see it's not a quick process, but it's so worth taking it slowly, working with each ingredient individually and learning it's strengths and abilities.</div>
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The final incense pastilles smell heavenly, and may look like sweets! Do not let anybody eat them by mistake.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(For ancestor connection)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ideally, into a new jar, you will add one dry ingredient a day, focusing your intent while you grind it in the mortar and pestle. If you just don't have time for that, then you could do them all at once. It won't change the smell - but it may not be quite so 'charged' for your working practises.</span></span></div>
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The next bit is where you can really only learn by trial and error. The mixture needs to be a just the right consistency to mold into small pellets without crumbling. If it seems too dry, you can add a tiny bit more liquid (the same wine you used at the beginning). If it is just too crumbly still, you can add a little more honey, but beware of over adding honey - the incense can be overpowered by a burnt sugar smell if you add too much. If it feels too wet, leave it in a warm place to let a little liquid evaporate.</div>
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As you make them, lay them out on a tray to dry. I always use my
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this, but you could just as well put them in a airing cupboard, or on a
shelf above a rayburn etc. The important thing is not to overdry them
(they will burn up in moments with very little smell if they are bone
dry) They want to feel dry but slightly squishy still. At this point,
they need to be left somewhere for at least a fortnight to 'cure'. It
needs to be warm enough that they wont get damp and mouldy, and just
very slowly finish drying out. Then I pack them away in tubs, so they
can't reabsorb atmospheric moisture. If you can bear to leave them to
mature for another couple of months, the scents become much richer and
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This type of incense doesn't burn in the same way as commercial incense does. If you burn it with a direct flame, it will simply catch fire and burn quickly with vast amounts of smoke. You may want this if you are outside doing ceremony and have a censer that you swing, or embers to throw it on, but usually it's better if you aim for a slower burn, and a more gentle release of smoke so that you get all the subtle flavours of ingredient present. </div>
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As Midsummer moves into 'high summer', I have continued to walk, snatching moments in the late evening, when I can find a little breathing space from the chores and stress of life.</div>
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Evening is also the best time to see all manner of wildlife. This doe is often to be seen in the ponies field on the edge of the woods. I crept right up to her on this occasion, across the field in stealth mode (wearing my invisibility cloak), even Captain didn't notice me, and he is usually the first to sense me arrive.</div>
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Excepting 'Mr Grumpy', who was a reject for the deck. I had some over- complicated thinking going on, and decided to buck against the imagery I was being given for the hare, and take it in the direction I wanted instead. So I painted two versions in tandem. Out came Mr Grumpy! But he wasn't right for the deck - I could see as soon as I had finished that the Golden Hare below was a perfect fit, and captured the energy of the card just right.</div>
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I had intended this to be a rich and earthy green painting, but the paint had other ideas, and as I laid down the rock face behind the figure, the flowing watercolour chose ethereal pink tones instead.</div>
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The woods truly are greening here, bursting into life over the may day weekend.</div>
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( I forgot to take my camera to the Jack in the Green celebration, but I'm sure you will see the pictures on the blogs of others in our community) </div>
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Seething with life - quite literally - this is a giant wood ant's nest, over a metre high, the surface of which is constantly changing as thousands of ants go about their business.</div>
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I've been out walking a lot. Walking is a meditation, a soul soothing, a chance to put thoughts in order, or a chance to put them aside.</div>
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For me, the walking, the intimate knowing of the land, and just as importantly, the <i>naming</i> of the land, the poetry of place that enables you to lay a map out in your head, is something I've been obsessed with since childhood.</div>
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When I was 10 or 11, and first allowed to ride out on a borrowed pony alone, I spent hours carefully copying out sections of the Ordnance survey map, marking bridlepaths and greenways, learning the names of the crossroads and the tracks, keeping these tiny maps first in the inner pocket of my tatty old jacket, and then, when they disintegrated from use, I kept them in my head.</div>
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This fascination with names and mapping continued on - always reading stories about historical routes around our land. A book called 'The Driftway' by Penelope Lively captured my imagination when I was about 10, and by the time I was 14, I had found myself a copy of 'The Old Straight Track' by Alfred Watkins. I studied local maps, learned place names, walked and rode old drovers paths, step after step after step, each footfall taking me deeper backwards into the past as I imagined all the feet that had trod that path before me.</div>
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This last couple of weeks I've been wandering over Bonehill Rocks, where I met a pair of Ravens, and on over Chinkwell Tor and Honeybags. Each hill has it's own character, it's own spirit of place. Though perhaps here, at Bonehill, there are many. Everywhere you turn, there are faces in the rocks.</div>
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It's been a busy winter. Ordinary tasks seem to take over in Winter - feeding and caring for the horses, walking dogs in the rain, and just keeping the family fed and looked after. I'm an unsociable bod, and when the days are short and the nights long, I am impossible to drag out from the fireside of an evening.</div>
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Although I am always happy to be out walking these bleak and beautiful hills in the daylight hours.</div>
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I love the way that you can feel them responding to the light returning, in the same way that I feel myself respond, and by Imbolc you know for sure that life is springing again. Even if it there are no visible signs, you can almost hear the energy just below the surface of the soil, the sap rising in the trees.</div>
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Here, in our mossy cloaked valleys, there is green even in the deepest winter.</div>
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However, winter does mean I get much more painting done than I manage in summer! I've been working my socks off, and am well on the way through the Oracle Deck project. 12 of the 13 Moons are completed. (I introduced them here: <a href="http://daniellebarlowart.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/the-thirteen-moons-and-wheel-of-year.html" target="_blank">Thirteen Moons project</a> )</div>
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As well as that, I've had work published in the new Earth <a href="http://www.glenniekindred.co.uk/earthpathways/index.html" target="_blank">Earth Pathways Diary</a> diary (my favourite ever diary!)</div>
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<br />and I have had a couple of book covers published. You may remember , a few years ago, I painted a little picture of <a href="http://daniellebarlowart.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/win-beltane-hare.html" target="_blank">Beltane Hare</a> ? Well, that has become the book cover for Moon Song, a brilliant and magical novel by Elen Sentier. There is an excellent review by June Kent, and purchase links for it <a href="http://shamanismbooks.co.uk/?tag=elen-sentier" target="_blank">HERE</a></div>
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In order to make this happen, they need to raise an awfully large sum of money, and so, on a sunny autumn day, friends and family wandered along to the little woodland, dressed in their best raggle taggle finery, and in between feasting by the fire, they all helped to make an amazing little film for them.</div>
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We rode out there too, taking Will and Captain, dressed in their best circus pony outfits!</div>
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<i>(<a href="http://windling.typepad.com/blog/" target="_blank">Terri Windling</a>, <a href="http://lunarhine.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Lunar Hine</a> and <a href="http://www.rimastaines.com/" target="_blank">Rima Staines</a>)</i></div>
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I have steadily been working away on the Oracle deck. <br />
This project has become intensely personal since it began. There was no 'dipping my toes in the water' with it, but instead I have been plunged deep into the waters of Myth, and Journeying, and Soul Searching. If I had known quite how rough those waters would be at times, I'm not entirely sure I would have taken the plunge, but it's been pretty amazing too, so I'm just sort of hanging on in there at the moment! </div>
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When I was first shown the deck, in dream, it was very clearly set out, in 3 layers, or subsets. The first of these is the Thirteen Moons.</div>
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moon (the Quiet Moon) being the one that falls immediately after the Winter
Solstice, the start of the old year. Each moon also has an associated
tree/shrub. (Although these are similar to those used in the Celtic Tree
calendar as set out by Robert Graves, and also have similarities to the names used in other cultures and localities, it is not an identical list, as I am
working very much with my own landscape of Dartmoor, and in my meditation and
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The 13<sup>th</sup> Moon, the Singing
Moon: Elder, does not fall in every year, and when it does, it comes between
the Hearth Moon and the Blood Moon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span> Essentially I am trying to capture the energy and
atmosphere of each full moon, and it feels really important that I paint them at the actual time of the full moon. (I missed the Weavers Moon this summer, being too too busy, and will now have to wait until next year to get that one right). I don't usually know the meaning of the card much in advance - I may have an idea, but the real meaning comes as I work on the painting.</div>
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This painting, the Lammas one, happened exactly like that. It was slow and tricky to do. I meditated on it before hand, and clearly saw the elements needed for the card. But I scribbled around with them for several days, trying to get them into a pleasing format which also represented 'abundance' which is what I generally associate Lammas with. It just wasn't coming. In the end, I went with the image in my head (the final design for the painting above) grumbling away to myself as I did so, because it didn't really seem to represent abundance at all. As I worked it, the word that kept popping into my head, however much I tried to dismiss it, was 'implacable'. And so there it is. As usual, the card showed me it's real meaning as I worked it. 'Implacability'.</div>
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The next card is one of the 13 moons. This is the Harvest Moon, which fell on the 8-9th of September this year. I stuck with the traditional name of Harvest Moon for this one, as that is what it is usually called, certainly here on my patch of Dartmoor, but actually, in my head, this one is called something else. </div>
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This is the Witch Moon. </div>
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This, for me, is perhaps the most magical point in the year. Of all the turning points in the year, this is the one that calls loudest to me. I can feel it, REALLY feel it - in my body, and my heart and my soul. It is as if there is a momentary pause in the cycle of the year, as if everything is held in balance for a few days, before the wheel rolls on. Maybe it is simply because mid - September is a time of plenty - harvests are mostly in, the hedgerows are full of berries, the living is easy for a brief moment at the beginning of Autumn, and so perhaps it is just that there is finally a breathing space, a time to be still and listen. Even in a busy 21st century life I feel that, and how much more so must it have been for our ancestors? It is a time of <b>edges</b>, and that is where magic is found most easily. In liminal places and times, it is easy to slip between the edges.</div>
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In regards to the card, it means it is a time to cross thresholds and embrace transformation.</div>
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This one is the Autumn Equinox, and it's the point at which I nearly threw the whole card idea deck out of the window! As I mentioned earlier, it has become an increasingly personal journey, and as I work each card, it seems that the meaning of each card becomes an issue that I have to work through myself. It gets a bit intense at times, and this was the worst so far. The meaning of this card is 'Truth', and my, did the Universe throw some stuff at me with this one. I worked through my own truths, got totally sucker-punched by someone else's truth, staggered back to my feet again, to find myself confronted with a whole lot more truth. In amongst this it was pretty hard to find the time or will to work on the actual painting, but I also felt that finishing the painting was the only way to reach the other side. </div>
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In the end, the latest card, the 'Hearth Moon' was much more straightforward. The issue here was a more practical one - this card means 'preparation (for a trial/challenge)'. So I can busy myself with practical things this month, and give the soul searching a break ;)</div>
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Well, it's been a long time since I talked about the ponies, so I think it's time I updated you.</div>
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(The truth is that the painting work has been painful and personal of late, and I'm not quite ready to explain it here yet !)</div>
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Anyway, this is a great long, rambling post, so please accept my apologies for waffling on ....and on.....</div>
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There have been a lot of changes afoot in the last year. I think the last update was <a href="http://daniellebarlowart.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/a-post-about-captain.html" target="_blank">here</a>, just over a year ago, explaining where we had got to with Captain. He has gone from strength to strength this year, still ridden by the Fey Daughter, despite having to fold her great long legs up. He has represented our Pony Club in Area Dressage and Mounted Games teams, learnt circus skills and really discovered cross -country jumping.</div>
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I'm so proud of the pair of them!</div>
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And, despite my slight anxiety, and him being by far the smallest, at 14.1hh, he managed to keep up with all the big horses in the top ride at Camp this year.</div>
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Thankfully the fey daughter still adores him, and doesn't want to relinquish him for bigger and fancier horses, for which I am inordinately grateful!</div>
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The next project this summer was <a href="http://daniellebarlowart.blogspot.co.uk/2010_10_01_archive.html" target="_blank">Peregrine</a> who I bought at the drift sales in 2010, to keep my own homebred weanling <a href="http://daniellebarlowart.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/look-whos-arrived.html" target="_blank">Kestrel</a> company.<br />
Both boys were 4 this summer, and well over-due to start work. Plans had changed somewhat for these two. In the early days I had assumed that we would break them both in, and the girls would ride them on for a year or so, and then I would be selling them to raise funds for bigger ponies. Sadly, I hadn't bargained on the children growing quite as fast as they did - both girls are now way taller than me, despite the owl daughter still being only 12. So this scuppered the plans somewhat.<br />
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Kestrel has only made 12.3hh, although I expect he'll come up another inch as he matures. He is very striking, nicely put together, and moves beautifully, and has the potential to show at county level. But sadly, not with us. Luckily, my aunt has taken him on, to produce for her grandchildren.<br />
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Peregrine, on the other hand, surprised us all by reaching 13.3hh. So we broke him in, slowly and gently, and he has turned out to be a superstar. Brave and eager to learn, with an insatiable curiosity for life!<br />
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However, the most amazing and wonderful story of all has been that of Will. You may remember when he came to us <a href="http://daniellebarlowart.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/introducing-will.html" target="_blank">3 years ago.</a></div>
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These 2 pictures show him on the day he arrived with us.</div>
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Then disaster struck. He went badly lame - it turned out to be inflammation of his annular ligament (the circular ligament around his rear fetlock, which was in turn rubbing on the tendon). He was very overweight, and that, combined with starting work albeit walking, and moving onto a hilly field is probably what caused it. It tool nearly four months for it to flare up, and go down again, and then the other leg did the same thing.</div>
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But finally, more than a year after he arrived, he came right in early February 2013, and I was able to start riding him.</div>
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Here he is with Captain. The two boys are absolutely best friends. They share everything, even their dinner, with never so much as a scowl at each other.</div>
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We kept on working, in my limited spare time. He was still nervous in heavy traffic, but by mid spring he was ready to escort a pony club ride out over the moor (in the most atrocious bitter wind and snow!)</div>
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Slowly , slowly, he began to learn how to bend a little, although he was terribly heavy and on the forehand to begin with.</div>
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He even managed to learn to jump a little pole, although I have to admit this was very hard work! It took him a long time to realise that he could pick his feet up, and he although he never stopped, he had a tendency to just bulldoze through obstacles.</div>
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By the beginning of this year, the owl daughter had grown far too big for her beloved little Matthew pony, so they were having to share the boys.</div>
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We took it very slowly, and to my amazement, by the end of the day, he was quite happy to have the girls standing on him, hula hooping, swinging pois and waving ribbons all over the place.</div>
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So I had a dilemma. The owl daughter needed a new pony. She was reluctant to try Will, thinking he was big and strong, and wouldn't be any good at Pony Club. I promised I would try and save up for a new pony, but in the meantime, camp was only 8 weeks away, so I persuaded her to try Will, and take him along if we hadn't found anything else to borrow, although he wouldn't be able to jump and keep up with the experienced ponies.</div>
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At pony club camp they discovered that they could do cross country and have joyfully galloped across acres of rolling parkland.</div>
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Will's especial favourite was the lake, where he would happily have plunged in and out of the water all day.</div>
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Silent meditative hours, picking away, accompanied only by the bees on the heather. And a lizard, which is a rare and precious sight.</div>
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With a well earned stop for tea. With unexpected whortles in it!<br />
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Over the beautiful bridge at Lingcombe (where you can also park your car if you don't want to drive along the rough farm track which follows)</div>
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This is where Bridget Thomasin lives, she paints and stitches, and writes the most wonderful <a href="http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=3121" target="_blank">poetry</a>, all of which reflects beautifully and quietly, the landscape in which she lives so simply.</div>
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If you have an opportunity to come out here over the next couple of weeks, please grab it. Bridget doesn't show her work online, and her latest book of poetry, 'a Small Singing', published by Mudlark Press, is only available through her. It's wonderful!</div>
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They are not for sale, but it feels good to show them. </div>
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We will all be showing our work there for the next couple of weeks. It's worth the trip, just to see Bridget's beautiful garden and have a slice of homemade cake!</div>
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I've spent a magical few days at Rivenstone - Festival of Bones, which takes place on Dartmoor, at the home of <a href="http://www.seventhwavemusic.co.uk/home.html" target="_blank"> Carolyn Hillyer and Nigel Shaw.</a></div>
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This year, the theme of the festival was the honouring of our ancestors, symbolised by the <a href="http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/lookingafter/laf-culturalheritage/whitehorse-hill-burial" target="_blank">White Horse Hill Woman</a> (an extraordinary recent archeological find here on the moors).</div>
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I had a stall there, selling my work, ably assisted by my sister <a href="http://atelierbee.typepad.com/atelier_bee//" target="_blank">Angharad</a>, and met so many lovely people, even some who knew me through my blog, so Thankyou, for coming to talk to me :)</div>
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In the heart of the moor, in the misty rain, wind sang through the heather, buzzards wheeled and mewed overhead, and drums sounded like the earth's heartbeat underfoot.</div>
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I spent three days listening to haunting music that sang of the land, and the sacredness of the earth.</div>
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And I danced - to English and Breton folktunes, and trancey drumming, and tribal chanting.</div>
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On the final day, there were a series of deep immersion workshops. Most of these were journeying workshops, and although I was sorely tempted by <a href="http://www.mandascott.co.uk/index.php#url=%23about" target="_blank">Manda Scott's</a> workshop - 'Ancestors of the Island Dreaming', in the roundhouse, I chose to immerse myself in experimental archeology instead and spent the day with Kate Fletcher and Corwen Broch, of <a href="http://www.ancientmusic.co.uk/" target="_blank">Ancient Music</a>, learning how to make reed pipes and deer bone flutes and a whistle from a cow's toe bone!</div>
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It was the most fun I've had in a long time - really! Lovely, lovely people, and we laughed all day. I even managed to make a decent sound with my reed pipe and flute, although I couldn't master the toe bone.</div>
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And then it was home again, to turn 40, which feels quite momentous and amazing. I feel grown up, wiser and serene, and I can wear my grey hair as a badge of honour. I feel as if I am finally ready to step into my true self.</div>
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I am lucky to live a life where I can do the things I love. I can work my garden and grow my herbs. This is White sage (Salvia Apiana) which I have grown from seed. To my surprise, it has grown well and strong, and I have already harvested a small amount for drying and using in smudge sticks. I imagine it will be hard to keep alive over a dartmoor winter, so I am planning to take cuttings and move pots into the cold greenhouse.</div>
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This is oil of St John's Wort, which has been macerating in the sun for the last six weeks. I love the way it has turned the greenish olive oil a rich red colour.</div>
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And this is the last harvest of milk thistle seeds from the garden, beautiful and useful plants, but vicious to extract the seeds from!</div>
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This is how I am happiest - here on these moors, in the rain and the wind and the sun. Walking and riding, painting and planting. </div>
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It's time to introduce you to my latest project! I've been working on this since the beginning of the year, and I reckon it will take a couple of years to finish.</div>
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It is a 'divination deck' - a set of cards for helping to show you the way. </div>
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I've never been particularly fond of Tarot cards. They spooked me a little when I was a child, and I still feel uneasy around them. However, these cards are NOT a tarot deck.</div>
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Early this year, while meditating and communing with the muse, this deck was laid out very clearly in my mind's eye. The 3 types of cards, the names of each, and the plant or animal connected to each of the higher cards. I scribbled copious notes and symbols in my sketchbook, while it was still fresh in my mind, and then sat back and thought about it all.</div>
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The 2 sets of 'higher 'cards are calendrical. One set of 13 are called 'The Lunar Cards' and they represent the 13 full moons of the year. The other set of 8 are called 'The Wheel Cards' and they represent the wheel of the year, the Celtic festivals and cross quarter days.</div>
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It immediately became apparent that I would need to paint each of these images at the correct time, to actually capture the energy and sense of the exact point in the year. This has put the pressure on! Some of the wheel cards are pretty large and complex, and I'm not used to working with such tight time constraints. It's been exhausting at times, but very satisfying.</div>
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What has been really interesting is how the meaning of the card has developed as I paint it. I know exactly how the image should look,and usually have a very broad sense of the meaning when I begin, but often it has crystallised into a very specific meaning ( sometimes depending on context) by the time I have finished.</div>
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So, there you are. It's a work in progress, and although I'm pleased to show you the images, I'm reluctant to give away too much detail about the meanings of the cards, and the workings of the pack, as I hope to find a way to publish it once completed.</div>
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Then I head for <a href="http://www.seventhwavemusic.co.uk/rivenstone2014.htm" target="_blank">Rivenstone festival </a>which I am SO excited about. It's promising to be a wonder-filled weekend, and I'm treating myself to a workshop too, as my 40th birthday present!</div>
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I think there are still a few spaces left if you want one :)</div>
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Do come and find me to say 'Hello' if you are at any of these events.</div>
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Well, it seems the cobwebs have been gathering here.</div>
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I've been away for so long that I think I may have forgotten how to use Blogger!</div>
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I'm sorry to have abandoned you all - I really didn't mean to - it's just I get so caught up in the 'here and now' that there never seems to be enough time to blog. Still, I'm here, and I'm dusting away busily. There is so much to catch up on - new projects afoot, pony news, that I've been scratching my head for weeks and wondering where on earth to start.</div>
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There is so much to see and do outside, that I spend almost every waking moment out under the skies, grateful every moment that I live where I do.</div>
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These stone lanes, green woods and steep valleys are just bursting with life. It seems there is more this year than ever before. A walk around the footpaths takes hours as I stop to examine each and every new plant, delighted whenever I find a new one.</div>
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Today I took my camera with me, so I could document the abundance of wildflowers.</div>
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And a pause to paddle and play in the river in the mid-day sun. The stepping stones are precarious, but it's lovely to wade across. The river is alive with the sound of whirring wings. Dragonflies and damselflies in every colour imaginable dart and swoop across the water.</div>
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We have been walking the late summer days. Picking and gathering, wandering across the ridges and clambering in the gullies, sitting in the heather with a flask of tea, surrounded by pots and buckets and the quiet roar of a thousand bees. </div>
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The first harvest is the whortleberries. The earliest berries ripen on my husband's birthday, and we always head out across the moor then. I could have been a gleaner in earlier lives. I am happiest with the sun on my back, and my feet in the heather, picking whortles. It's a slow process, they are tiny and well hidden, but it soothes my soul like nothing else. It takes an afternoon to fill a basket, but it is immensely satisfying.</div>
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My children used to call them 'heatherberries', because they grow in amongst the heather bushes, purple flowers and dark blue berries together.</div>
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After the first week my children lost all interest in picking them, and refused to come, but Steve and I and the Wolf spent many evenings alone gathering berries. It seems no-one does this any more. In all our time out there we have never met another person taking advantage of this incredible bounty.</div>
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Some were frozen, and some made into pies, and many have been dried for the winter, but the best use of all for them is to make fruit leather. I have cooked and dried sheets and sheets of it, sweetened with a tiny bit of heather honey, and then cut into strips and put in the cupboard. Perfect for a sweet treat, or pack lunches, and good for you too :)</div>
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We are part way through picking apples, and many of those are turned into dried apple rings (but the children eat these faster than I can make them if I don't hide them away!) . And we had a glut of yellow dwarf beans in the allotment, which weren't nearly as tasty as the wonderful Cosse Violette purple beans which I love best of all. So I experimented with a salty, chilli style of pickling, reminiscent of Japanese pickles. They are delicious, and disappearing fast!</div>
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Then came the blackberries. The ponies like to go blackberry picking too, and it's useful to be taller so you can reach the higher berries.</div>
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Piper ate as many herself as the owl daughter could pick.</div>
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And I gathered rowan berries. The hills are scarlet with rowan at the moment.</div>
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I have wood stored for a winter project. I have been gathering pieces all year, all labelled with provenance and put away till I have time to work on it.</div>
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And I have had deer on my mind, in many ways. </div>
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I walked to a special place today, past the cloven stone, to the Deer Rock which looks over the valley.</div>
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Thoughts and ideas are coming together and slowly a plan is forming. <br />
In the meantime, there are still blackberries to pick, I have a deer mandala to paint, and I think I need a deer drum.<br />
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Here is an autumn addition to the 'Blessings' series.</div>
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You can find it <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/162649326/in-the-still-of-the-night-original" target="_blank">HERE</a> :)</div>
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And I realised it was time to make prints of the Deer Guardian too, which you can find here <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/162459539/the-red-deer-guardian-2-archival-a4?ref=shop_home_feat" target="_blank">HERE</a></div>
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I'm going to warn you before you begin reading - this is, as promised, an entire post about ponies. In fact, it is just about Captain. So, I apologise to all my lovely followers who aren't interested in the pony details - I promise the next post will cover other things too :)</div>
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However, as most of you know, ponies play a pretty important role in our lives. We are very lucky to have the most amazing ponies living with us, but this is the story of Captain.</div>
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Long term blog readers may remember that Captain came to us as an unseen youngster - rising 6 but very green. We fell in love the moment he arrived. He was intended for my eldest daughter, just moving off her 13hh pony , Matt. However, as Captain was such a novice, I rode him on for the first six weeks.</div>
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He has never been anything other than amazing! He is only 14hh, but he has the biggest heart of any pony I know. There is a childlike innocence to him, even now. He likes to play, always, and he hasn't EVER shown any bad temper or irritation - I don't think I've ever seen that in another equine. He doesn't quite abide by the normal herd behaviour rules with other horses. He seems to have no concept of personal space with ponies , friends or not, and will walk straight up to strangers to share food, or even to grab their neck and invite a wrestle. (He did this once while being ridden!). Weirdly, this behaviour is tolerated by all - he is simply treated like a foal, indulged and looked after, or at the worst, ignored. </div>
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The downside of this is that he is a slow learner. Willing, but slow. He needs to have instructions spelt out really clearly and simply, and it can take a while to register. He tries for a while, feeling a bit anxious and confused, and then suddenly there is a 'Eureka' moment, and he's very pleased with himself!</div>
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When he first arrived, he came from a flat county. He had really only just begun work, and his initial way of going was to be very overbent and to barely move forwards at all. This was compounded by our steep hills, and the very first time I rode him he just stopped the moment I turned up hill, and appeared really bemused as to how he was supposed to get up it. It took 6 months before he felt like he was moving forward, and another year before he really began to engage his hindquarters rather than powering from the front.</div>
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By this time I had long handed over to the fey daughter. She had weekly lessons on him, and took him to Pony Club camp that first summer.</div>
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He started to learn to jump, which he found pretty scary to start with, although water was simply another opportunity for play!</div>
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By this time, the two of them had become an inseparable partnership. Captain was experienced and safe on the moors, and I knew I could trust the pair of them out all day on the moor.</div>
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Captain's had finally mastered walk and trot, and at last was starting to build up some top line and back muscles. Although he was fine cantering out on hacks, he still struggled to balance in canter on a circle, and was beginning to fall out through his shoulder.</div>
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At the same time, I had Captain's back checked, which was fine, but the vet, on giving him a general once over, pointed out that he had a heart murmur. This was news to us, but then I hadn't had him vetted when we got him. After an initial panic, I realised there was no point worrying about it. It hasn't stopped him from doing any of the things we wanted to do with him, as long as we get him fit slowly, and allow him recovery time during hard work whenever he asks for it, I guess we just carry on as usual. It does mean that between that, and the sarcoids which I discovered when he arrived, he will never pass a vet or have any resale value. Luckily, that doesn't matter, as he won't ever be sold, as he is worthy his weight in gold to us!</div>
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We do plenty of road work as well as lots of moorland riding, which includes a lot of stony tracks. None of this limits Captain. He is equally as happy to ride down the main road while lorries and coaches rattle past, as he is to stride across the moor. At this point he was borrowed by our friend and riding instructor to escort her students on a 2 day moor ride, as her horse was unable to go. In true Captain style, he was the star of the day. While other horses pranced and danced, and a diversion led them into a bog, Captain ended up taking the two smallest children on the lead rein, and calmly leading everyone over Dartmoor for two days.</div>
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Then, they decide to have a go at mounted games training! Poor Captain was utterly bemused by this. He liked the idea that it was all some sort of game, and was keen to help pick up flags and potatoes, but he just couldn't get to grips with racing, particularly a racing start.</div>
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The fey daughter has gamely soldiered on - she and her friends think it is the best fun ever, and it is hilarious to watch. Slowly Captain is learning new things, and I'm pretty sure he enjoys it too. I don't think he is ever going to be a threat to our neighbouring pony club teams though!</div>
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Much to the fey daughter's annoyance, we had a polocrosse training day while she was away for the weekend. So her sister took Captain instead. He took to it like a pro, and they declared it was the best fun they had ever had.</div>
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It was very fast, and very noisy, and very rough, (between riders, not ponies) and looked to all intents and purposes as if the pupils of St Trinians had been let loose on ponies. </div>
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Out goal for his year was to have Captain fluently jumping a 2' 3" cross country course. At the beginning of the year I was doubtful this was attainable. We still couldn't get him really going forwards into the jumps, and certainly not moving on and away afterwards. He still wasn't entirely confident about it all.</div>
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Then at the beginning of the summer the fey daughter and Captain were in the junior dressage team and went to compete at the Devon and Cornwall Area Dressage. He was the only hairy cob at the very smart Royal Cornwall Showground, but despite the terrible nerves, and it being only their second ever dressage competition, they did brilliantly, and got the highest marks out of their team.</div>
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And then at camp this year (Captain's 3rd Pony Club Camp) the fey daughter got her chance to try polocrosse.</div>
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So, it's been a long old journey getting here, and after the initial 6 weeks, it has been entirely down to the fey daughter. She adores Captain, and he adores her too. Sadly, she, like all my children, seem to have had their feet in compost this year, and have all grown incredibly tall. Her peers are moving on up to horses, but we've had a lot of discussion about this. She is adamant that she doesn't want to give up Captain (which is, quite frankly, a relief, as I certainly don't intend to let him go!). So, I hope they have a lifetime together. It may be that she wants to go on and do more than he can do in the future - in which case I hope she can borrow. She is finally a competent enough rider that she gets offered horses to ride now. She did borrow a friends horse to take her C+ test last week, because I felt it was too much pressure to ask Captain to go out and jump 2' 9" showjumping and cross country in an exam environment when he has only just gained his confidence.</div>
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But most of all, I am proud of the pair of them, for they have achieved so much together!</div>
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As always July and August have been unbelievably busy. End of term, allotment work, and children's projects and hobbies seem to take up all my time. Most of all we have been busy with ponies, but I'll tell you about them in the next post. I find it hard to have creative space in my head when there is so much else to sort out, and so I haven't done much work over the last couple of months. </div>
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I took another step towards working completely intuitively. Here are two 'Shamanic mandalas,' each painted for a specific purpose.</div>
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Each has a particular meditation, or process that goes with it, but I'm not going to publish it here, because I think it is important that they speak to people individually first, before you are influenced by what I have to say about them! </div>
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I'm just working on getting prints from each that I am satisfied with, and then I will list them on Etsy (and detailed explanations will be included when the prints are posted off)</div>
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The long wet winter suddenly turned into glorious summer, and every waking moment seems to have been spent outside! I did finish work for exhibition - you can see it here, and some of the originals are now for sale in my Etsy shop.</div>
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We are lucky to have a fantastic allotment, which Steve works very hard on. It was wild and overgrown when we took it on 5 years ago, but we have gradually reclaimed most of it. The allotments are at the top of the village, catching the afternoon sun, with the most magnificent views across the hills. </div>
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What more perfect way to spend a summer Sunday than riding ponies with friends all day, followed by a lazy evening in the allotment?</div>
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One side of the allotment is bordered by apple trees, and the other by elder trees. At the bottom is an elderly walnut tree.</div>
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I love this church - dedicated to St Michael the Archangel, it sits on the hill, a direct line passing through the church, the war memorial with it's much older cross, down the hill and squarely through my house, and on up to the lookout at the top of the deer park.</div>
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And the churchyard too, a sleepy, friendly place, full of the memories of people who have lived and loved in this small place.</div>
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Starting to panic now - I have an exhibition on the first of May!</div>
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I have so many paintings in my head, and not enough time to work on them!</div>
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'She Walks in Grace'</div>
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Prints available in Etsy shop.</div>
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'The Love of a Wolf is a Splendid Thing'</div>
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No time for painting these last two weeks. Plenty of playing with ponies though.</div>
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Perry loves to be scratched!</div>
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And Will tolerates kisses :)</div>
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My sisters and I were snapped posing for Goddess portraits, but to be honest we look scarily like Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters.</div>
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And here is the sentinel, guardian of the valley. A stag's head of oak and granite. How magical is that?</div>
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<br />Danielle Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00570796614148198253noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653301517528949264.post-56078296912841405822013-03-08T01:17:00.000-08:002013-03-08T01:17:36.736-08:00Winter gives way to Spring<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been laid low by illness for half of this month. It seems to have taken out most of the village. It did mean I had a little time for painting though!</div>
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'New Beginning'</div>
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(For Sale in the Etsy shop)</div>
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The milder weather inspired me to create a couple more card designs - spring like, of course! </div>
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I particularly love the fox below :)</div>
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'Spring Song'</div>
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I should have prints and cards available of these in the next couple of days.</div>
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'Midwinter Fire'</div>
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This painting has gone into Artisan, Chagford, to sell.</div>
Danielle Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00570796614148198253noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653301517528949264.post-46147146163928010222013-02-03T14:03:00.000-08:002013-02-03T14:03:13.762-08:00Winter paintings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week I have walked in the Wild Wood.</div>
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Peered over walls</div>
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and been inspired by this magical, mythical landscape in which I live.</div>
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More prosaically, the wolf has watched her boy climb trees - the one place she cannot join him.</div>
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I have begun work on a new piece - a song of Winter, forming slowly.</div>
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'Across Waye Hill' </div>
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And I have managed two other pieces this week. A quick landscape that you may recognise from last week's photos. </div>
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'The Moth Magician'</div>
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I love this one, and am reluctant to part with it. However, prints of her are now in my Etsy shop :)</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">And so the next project begins to unfold. Slowly, slowly. Fold being the operative word here - the rough sketches and colla<span style="color: blue;">ge for <span style="color: blue;">the first piece are enormous - over 6 foot long, and so I am constantly <span style="color: blue;">trying to fold and m<span style="color: blue;">ove large sheets of paper. <span style="color: blue;">The main sheet was sellotaped temporarily to the kitchen wall, so I could see the whole thing<span style="color: blue;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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And here are pages from my sketchbook, cut up and stuck together into another long strip, giving a 360 degree panoramic view of Greyweathers and the skyline behind.</div>
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This is how the Stone Circles project begins.</div>
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It will be stitched, and patched, and woven. Layer upon layer, age upon age. A project that is about healing, and anchoring, and mapping the bones of this land.</div>
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<br />Danielle Barlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00570796614148198253noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653301517528949264.post-2887065950310857762013-01-20T11:32:00.002-08:002013-01-20T11:32:41.284-08:00Snow days<div style="text-align: center;">
The snow finally reached us, here in the southwest of England. Friday was a snow day for my eldest daughter - to her great delight the school bus couldn't get through. Luckily the owl daughter and the wolf boy are at school in the village, which remained open for all children within walking distance (or able to be delivered by tractor)<br />
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The fey-daughter and I trudged up the hill to feed the ponies.</div>
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All have seen snow before, but childlike Captain instigated snow games and general playfullness.</div>
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Even old boy Matthew decided to join in. So did the fey daughter and the wolf, rolling in knee deep snow and playing with snow balls.</div>
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Piper is the only one without a rug, but her thick Highland coat deflects rain, snow, electric fence charge, and pretty much anything else!</div>
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Today is bitingly cold, and the lanes are icy and slightly scary, so I have stayed indoors and done the long overdue blog revamp. What do you think? I am particularly pleased with the Gallery tabs at the top of the page :)</div>
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I think it's finally time to put these paintings up here. It's a funny old business, painting commissions for people. I know I am just the last in a long line of artists who have discussed this issue - many of them far more eloquently than me. But here's the thing. I'm usually pretty careful to be objective about commissions, and thought I was pretty hard and professional about the whole thing. A customer asks for a painting, you discuss it at length, I do a few quick roughs, and if it's going in the right general direction, I push on. If it's not, well, it's no big deal, you listen closely and head in a different direction. However, last summer, I got caught out pretty badly and it's taken me a long while to feel like I'm ready to expose myself again.</div>
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I was asked to do a painting for a friend. A good friend. We talked about it at length, and then after a couple of months of pondering, I did some serious meditation, and really channelled the muse. I was so thrilled with what I had come up with - I thought it was perfect! I did some roughs, and spent hours working on the complicated border design which I thought represented my friend absolutely. And here is where it went wrong. Usually at this point, I have a very humble approach. I may have spent considerable time thinking, and working on roughs, but I haven't put any of my soul into it. I'm pretty noncomittal at this stage, and quite prepared for rejection. This time I was cocky and arrogant and exceedingly pleased with myself. I skipped around the house singing 'this is the best thing I have ever done' to my family. I rang my sister and told her how perfect and amazing my picture would be. I emailed my friend and told him this was going to be awesome, and what did he think of the roughs?</div>
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I was absolutely floored by this, shockingly so. I was so unprepared for it, that it completely shook me emotionally and creatively for a long time, and it took me a couple of months to pick myself up again from it. I couldn't distance myself from this, and move on with a new painting, and at last I decided to go ahead and paint the original painting anyway, for myself, because it needed to get out, and I didn't think I could do a new one until I had 'exorcised ' the first. Once done, I put it away quietly. Eventually, I picked up my pencil and did new roughs, and a new painting. This one was right, and my friend was thrilled. And here is the lesson. It was not in any way the fault or problem of my friend, whom I love dearly. It was me.</div>
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And I guess that's right. You would think, this far down the line, that I would have learnt this by now. I thought I had, but I'm going to keep the other painting, just to remind me of this! It's such an old lesson - pride comes before a fall, or, Never be cocky until the roughs have been approved!</div>
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Anyway, I've got rid of the emotional baggage attached to this, and can laugh about it now, so I'm curious to know which of these two paintings you like best? (I honestly wont mind which you choose!)</div>
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So, after the emotional stuff, here is something to make you laugh. In an attempt to beat the never ending rain, I made a comedy Sou'wester style cover for my riding hat. So far my children have refused point blank to ride out with me if I wear it. It keeps the rain off though ;-)
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The girls went on a Christmas ride, stopping for hot chocolate and mince pies half way. Captain enjoyed the mince pies as much as they did!
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I have spent the beggining of the year dealing with the aftermath of the babies new found hobby. It's called 'breaking in and breaking out'.They have broken into the feed shed, discovered how to undo bolts and latches, and how to push fence posts over so they can go exploring the woods. They have caused a large amount of damage in the last few weeks, and yet miraculously have escaped unscathed. The only thing I can say in their favour is that they do both come when called. Earlier this week when I discovered them missing, and the fence and gate to the woods looked as if a bulldozer had driven over them, I called for 5 minutes. They came thundering down from somewhere deep in the wood, over the wall and through the thick undergrowth, inordinately pleased with themselves.</div>
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Perry looks like butter wouldn't melt , doesn't he? Don't be fooled.
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The children have now been back at school for a week, and I have been able to get back into my studio. I began with a landscape to remind me of summer in the dark depths of winter.</div>
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Then it was back to 'The Woods Maiden and her King'.<br />
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I've been tucking birds away in the ivy. Chaffinch and wren, blackbird and blue tit.</div>
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Honey bee, and nuthatch.</div>
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'Blessed Bee' </div>
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Lots of new work this week, as I desperately create for the Artisan Fair in Chagford on Saturday! All these are available as A5 prints, and the originals will come to the fair to sell.</div>
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'The Holly and The Ivy'</div>
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'Bless This Land of My Soul'</div>
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Made into lovely cards on recycled brown paper.</div>
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Cards are £2 each or 5 for £8</div>
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Meanwhile I continue to walk this land, finding new treasures and small beauties each time.</div>
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These large beauties are my boys, waiting for hay on this iron hard morning.</div>
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The small boys, across the valley are growing up, cheeky and playful.</div>
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And the view across the valley, ever changing yet remaining constant. This land is home.</div>
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