A detail from another shot in the Lamia photoshoot
: “Two weekends ago my studio in my flat here in Hastings got its first proper use: a session of life-drawing (drawings below) followed by the Lamia photoshoot (prints of which are available here). …”
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HAG installation, by artist Beccy McCray
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Two minute concept sketch in pastels on black paper by the author
: “Lamia is a character from Greek mythology who — like many other deities and monsters of Greek mythology — seems to have been reimagined several times during the classical period. The earliest…”
Spirit of the Orchard (detail)
: “Although I only posted this photograph on my site and social media yesterday, it was actually taken at a photoshoot back in the autumn of 2020, in the window between the first and second Covid…”
Detail of one of the author's Badb Catha photographs
: “The discussion of the Eerie continues to grow, mainly on Twitter and blogs, but also in the real world. …”
Stonehenge, by the author
: “I’ve just got back from Wiltshire where we’ve been wandering around the prehistoric ritual landscape that includes Stonehenge. …”
Photograph by the author
: “Sometimes you read an article or blog post that sums up much of what you’ve been thinking around, and that’s good. When the article not only does this, but is also written incredibly well and goes…”
Agostino Veneziano (fl. 1509–1536), The Witches’ Rout (The Carcass). Engraving, c. 1520.
: “I’ve recently started reading Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale by Marina Warner - something which coincided with a visit to the Witches & Wicked Bodies exhibition at the British…”
The Crow Priestess> (detail) by the author
: “In my somewhat pretentiously-titled post The present is haunted by the mythic ghost of the paleolithic wilderness a couple of weeks ago I wrote: …”
: “On Monday I took the day off from my day job to get some artwork done. …”
Photograph by the author
: “Do you ever have one of those moments where you realise that a number of seemingly disparate things you are reading, watching, or pondering are actually all connected and swirling around a central…”
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: “I wrote about my ideas for the next series of photographs/prints in a post in February and since then I’ve been working on the mask and other props, and drawing out some very quick (5 minute)…”
: “Looking back on my photographic work since 2012 I’ve got to the point now where I feel I’ve amassed a good range of these pseudo-mythological characters. There are probably a couple more female…”
: “I'm currently working through some ideas for a new series of artwork based around the mythic figure of the Blindfolded Seeress. …”
: “I’m slowly forming some plans for some artwork based around a few Lithuanian mythological characters: Medeina, Žemyna, Ežerinis, and Ragana. …”