Rebecca Jane Stockburn

The Three Gwenhwyfars

66 cm by 50 cm watercolour, original sold but prints available in the shop.

Rocking Hedgie Greeting Card

The Birth of Blodeuwedd

60 cm watercolour, original sold but prints available in the shop

Frog Prince Greeting Card

Melangell's Hare, sold

Prints available

Barn Owl Greeting Card

Melangell Under the Yew Tree, Sold

According to legend, Saint Melangell was an Irish princess who became a hermit in the wilds of Powys, Wales. However, this legend probably originated from the Bronze Age. The church was built on a circular enclosure, with cremations starting from around 1500 BC. Also, around that time Orion the Hunter, along with the dog stars Sirius and Procyon, and the hare, Lepus, rose directly over that valley for 5 months of the year. This stellar event likely was the reason for this ancient site and legend

Blue Tit Greeting Card

Owain Glyndwr, Watercolour, Sold

In Wales, alongside Cadwaladr and Arthur, Owain (c. 1359-c. 1415) has become a mythical ‘sleeping hero’, who awaits the call to return and liberate his people. The gold dragon was his royal standard, it was used as his seal, and was raised as a flag over the castles he captured from the English. The mound they are sleeping on is Sycharth, the ruins of his family home, and the valley is the one in which he spent most of his life, and in which I currently live.

Branwen and the Fledgling, Sold

Branwen ferch Llŷr is a legendary tale from medieval Welsh literature and the second of the four branches of the Mabinogi. It concerns the children of Llŷr; Bendigeidfran (literally "Brân the Blessed"), high king of Britain, and his siblings Manawydan and Branwen, and deals with the latter's marriage to Matholwch, king of Ireland. Matholwch's mistreatment of the British princess led to a mutually destructive and lethal war between the two islands.

Swan Lake Greeting Card

Brigid, Watercolour, Sold

Mary Magdalene, Watercolour, Sold

Welsh Myths and Legends, for sale

Hand Painted Fan

Chang'E, Watercolour, Sold

Chang'e, the Chinese moon goddess, was exiled to the moon because of her need to obtain divinity. With a white rabbit as her only companion, she spent much time alone contemplating life's mysteries under the cassia tree, the tree of life. Chang'e represents the need to go within to gain knowledge, to own one's divinity, and withdrawal to better contemplate life. A Chinese satellite was named after her.

British Wildflowers, sold

The Sockburn Worm

My Family's dragon...and the inspiration behind Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky.

Rhiannon, sold

Rhiannon is a major and classic figure in the earliest prose literature and mythology of Britain, the Welsh Mabinogi. She was a strong minded Otherworld woman, who chose Pwyll, prince of Dyfed, as her consort, in preference to another man to whom she had already been betrothed. Their son was the hero Pryderi, who later inherited the lordship of Dyfed. Rhiannon is strongly associated with horses, and so is her son Pryderi. She is often considered to be related to the Gaulish goddess Epona.

Scottish Myths and Legends Fan, NFS

Saint Melangell, Watercolour, Sold

Pond Life, hand painted fan, sold

Under the water side, detail

Mr and Mrs Mallard Greeting Cards

Savanna, hand painted fan, sold

Migrating Herds side