Colourful Celtic and Medieval-inspired dragon art - Fire Dragon - with a look at fire dragon myth and folklore...

My medieval and Celtic dragon artworks - plus a deep, deep dive into a  fascinating cavern of dragon myth, magic, meaning and symbolism...

​Dragons are special to us. We love our dragons. I, especially, love dragons…

Many years ago, in the early- to mid-2000s, I used to spend all my free time drawing dragons. I drew them on paper, on T-shirts, and even on two of my husband’s guitars!

And I wanted to start a business where I got to draw dragons all day!

Fast forward fifteen years or so, and I’m drawing dragons for a new collection of artworks for my art business – and getting a little over-excited delving deep into the myth, meaning and symbolism of dragons to understand our relationship with dragons better…

Don’t you think it’s strange that even though we’ve never seen a dragon, we all know what a dragon looks like and how it behaves!

Dragons are a part of our lives, our history, and our culture. Amazingly, dragons appear throughout history and across many different cultures – dragon meaning and symbolism can sometimes differ or even encompass multiple meanings.

​So let’s start exploring the wonderful and fearsome world of dragons…
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My beautiful Celtic and medieval-inspired blue-green water dragon art - plus I take a deep dive into a dangerous pool of water dragon myth, legend and folklore...

Come on in, the water's lovely..!!

Enter the quiet dragon... sleeping Earth Dragon artwork - plus a tiptoe into the dark caverns and barrows of the sleeping earth dragon to uncover his legends, myths, and folklores...

We're taking a deep dive into dragon lore - the magical world of dragon myth, meaning, and symbolism - some explorations I've done to accompany a new set of colourful medieval and Celtic-inspired dragon artworks...

Dragon lore is a rich tapestry across history and cultures - we've looked at some early dragon myths and legends in part I of this post here - now, we're going to continue (somewhat intrepidly) down our dragon-filled path to find out more about our early British dragons, the role of Christianity in the legend of the dragon, and some dragon fairytales...

​Let's go...

My beautiful air dragon or celestial dragon in a colourful Celtic-Medieval style - with a closer look into some of the interesting myths, legends and folklores about our air dragons...

I love living in the countryside. I think green and natural spaces are essential to mankind, and our need for them shouldn’t be down-played or side-lined…

People living close to green spaces, or having regular access to them, show increased happiness, and better mental and physical health – quite startlingly so in fact!

And I think with the 2020-21 lockdowns, we've all become suddenly far more aware of our need for time in nature and that this should be a right for all, as it's a basic need for us as people...

People are meant to live in nature. Did you know we can see significantly more shades of green than any other colour? This is because, evolutionarily, we needed to be able to identify leaves and plants, for our survival – so we are physically evolved to live in nature.

It's a massive sale weekend in my Redbubble store this weekend with 20-60% off everything until June 1st.

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Offers expire 1st June 2021, 11.59pm

Click here to browse my store...

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Redbubble offer a huge range of products from art prints and canvases, T-shirts, tops, dresses, skirts, scarves, phone & tech cases, bags, notebooks, mugs, cushions, throws and duvet covers, shower curtains and bathmats, masks, jigsaws, aprons and more!

D​elivery is worldwide from your closest manufacturing centre and in the unlikely case that you're charged customs, you can get refunded on request!

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My Celtic Kestrel artwork plus a look at the history, myth, folklore and meaning of the kestrel...

The beautiful kestrel is the UK’s second most common bird of prey. Often called the ‘motorway hawk’, if you’ve seen a small bird of prey hovering above the verge of a motorway or other road, you’ve likely seen a kestrel.

Although still a common sight in Britain, numbers suffered in the past as kestrels were often killed by gamekeepers in the late 19th and early 20th century, and they have also been affected by organochlorine pesticides in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Since the 1980s, the kestrel population has fluctuated but currently appears to be in moderate decline, although the reason why is not yet known, and the kestrel has therefore been listed on the Amber List of Birds of Conservation Concern.