Mr Faun

This laddy is a mixed media painting of my Prince as a treetop nestled tryllefløyte (magic flute) playing faun.

In Roman mythology, fauns are half~man, half~goat incarnations of forest and animal spirits, with little horns, pointed ears, hooves and a tail. They are depicted as mischievous and fond of dance and music, and capable of guiding or guiding astray men who stumble into the wilderness. Fauns are comparable to the Greek god Pan and his satyrs, and the cheeky woodland sprite Puck from English folklore.

Spellbinding tales starring faun characters include C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia (Mr Tumnus), Mexican film~maker Guillermo del Toro's bewitching fantasy Pan's Labyrinth, and Russian ballet dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky's sensual L'après-midi d'un faune. Inspired by the poem of the same name by French poet and critic Stéphane Mallarmé, it was originally created for the Ballets Russes. Below, Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev will perform L'après-midi d'un faune for you...

The ballet's score, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, was written by French composer Claude Debussy. Debussy said of his music ~

"The music of this prelude is a very free illustration of Mallarmé's beautiful poem. By no means does it claim to be a synthesis of it. Rather there is a succession of scenes through which pass the desires and dreams of the faun in the heat of the afternoon. Then, tired of pursuing the timorous flight of nymphs and naiads, he succumbs to intoxicating sleep, in which he can finally realize his dreams of possession in universal Nature."

Merriest spirit entwined in the branches of my darling forest faun

Mr Salamander

Kaleidoscopic Forest Spirits!

Tree Spirits

Pixie Prince and Russian faerytales

Drifting in dreamland with my Prince... his imagination pisks me into krem... much enchantment to scan in...

Magic carpetted yesterday to the Diaghilev exhibition at the V and A Museum... beguiled by a Russian faerytale cover illustrated by Ivan Bilibin and a beautiful photograph of a woodland faun from the sylvan ballet, 'L'Après-midi d'un faune'... composer~conductor Pierre Boulez wrote "the flute of the faun brought new breath to the art of music"...

Woodland Wings

(My hunk as a branch-crowned peacock Prince)

The Voyages of Pixie and Lykkemynt

I am drifting in drømmende memories after a certain frekk four~leafed feller pisked together the most deilig, magisk kake~mix of days with my charmingest Pixie knight...

...now gathering stjernestøv for a book galaxy~swirling with the adventure tales of Pixie and Lykkemynt...!

 

Melkerull and Mermaid Magisk

I am nestled back in bonny England, after blissful Norske springing adventures with a Pocahontas and a Pixie... all my pumpkin carriages are tingling to voyage there again. My heart is still nested there and my feet are hovering far above the meadow grass...

The 'Circus' exhibition at The Green Tree Gallery was star-spangled, and my poetry book is half pisked together. Now we are dowsing the barn in ocean~gleam for 'Coast'... I have been buried in books ever since touching English shores, voyaging into the wonder~woven worlds of Medieval, Renaissance, and Persian art, discovering magical tales of sirens and mermaids and nixies, and gathering seaspray to sketch the characters I will weave into finished paintings... seahorse are my new favourite creature.

Wednesday wonder~wishes and winks to you.

The Lantern-Lit Odalisque