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Celtic Rowan Art, Folklore & Meaning

14/1/2021

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Beautiful Celtic Rowan art prints and products with optional Celtic Tree Calendar version and a look at rowan history, folklore and meaning...
Celtic Rowan art by Lotti Brown
Celtic Rowan art
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The beautiful rowan is one of our most beautiful and colourful trees – with frothy white blossoms in spring, delicate feathered leaves, and colourful red autumn berries.

It’s also traditionally considered as one of most magical trees!

The name ‘rowan’ is thought to come from the Gaelic word ‘rudhan’ meaning ‘the red one’ – and/or the Norse ‘run’ meaning ‘rune’, ‘a secret spell or charm’.

The Gaelic ogham for rowan is ‘luis’ meaning ‘flame’, ‘herb’ or ‘great many’.

Celtic Tree Calendar rowan art - 21 January to 7 February
Celtic Tree Calendar version - 21 January to 17 February
Rowan - Celtic Tree Calendar version prints & products

We’ll look at some more common names for the rowan, together with their folklore and meaning in a little while, too…
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Celtic Birch Art, Folklore & Meaning

17/12/2020

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Celtic birch art with a Celtic Tree Calendar version available - plus a look at the folklore, history and meaning of the birch tree...
Celtic birch tree art
Celtic birch tree art
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​Birch is one of our most beautiful native British trees and one of the most mystical!

Birch is often seen as a ‘pioneer tree’...

It was the first tree to start to recolonise the land after the last Ice Age and is, even now, often the first to start to grow on cleared lands or wastelands...

And it provides nourishment for the plants and trees that come after to allow the natural ecosystem to regrow.

​Because of this, birch is often associated with renewal and new beginnings.
Celtic Tree Calendar art - birch - 24 December to 20 January
Celtic tree calendar art - birch - 24 December to 20 January
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Celtic Knotwork Art - Humanity & Kindness

21/7/2020

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Celtic knotwork art - Humanity & Kindness...
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Celtic knotwork art - Humanity - Kindness - Patience - Together
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I created this colourful Celtic knotwork design on the theme of humanity and kindness and based on a traditional Celtic knotwork design -

I actually created it in the first weeks of lockdown (late-March 2020) for a book on kindness, 'Be Kind' by Tecassia Publishing - thinking about how we're all interconnected across the whole world and how we need to cultivate our kindness and patience towards each other so that we can all live together effectively, especially in those most difficult moments when we sometimes feel anything but patient and kind...
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The Celtic Tree Calendar

30/6/2020

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What is the Celtic Tree Calendar? 
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  • It’s a celebration of a year of trees - a calendar idea that allocates a tree to a month (or period of time) similar to the zodiac idea that we’re all familiar with.

  • The months are actually based around lunar months of 28 days so there are 13 months and 13 corresponding trees in each year.​
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  • The Celtic Tree Calendar that’s widely used is based on Robert Graves’ idea of a Celtic Tree Calendar put forward in his book ‘The White Goddess’.
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Celtic tree artwork
Celtic Tree artwork - click here to see...
The Celtic Tree Calendar is actually a beautiful idea – focusing our attention on our different trees and appreciating their beauty as well as their natural history and the parts they’ve played in our own social and cultural story…

I love the idea and I’ve based my latest Celtic Tree Project around the 13 tree months – although I also intend including other favourite trees later (so hopefully your own favourite tree will be there before too long, as well…).

​I'll show you my Celtic Tree Calendar artworks project at the end of the post (or you can scroll down now if you can't wait!!)...

It’s certainly a wonderful idea and it’s really captured the public imagination. I think it’s a great way for us all to feel more connected with nature…
Celtic Tree Calendar - celebrating a year of trees
Celebrating trees - the Celtic Tree Calendar

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Celtic Hawthorn Art

13/5/2020

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Hawthorn Meaning & Symbolism

My Celtic hawthorn art plus a look at hawthorn meaning, symbolism, stories, folklore and traditions...
Celtic Hawthorn Art by Lotti Brown
Celtic Hawthorn art by Lotti Brown
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Hawthorn, commonly known as whitethorn or may, is one of our most beautiful spring trees in the countryside, where you will often see it in hedgerows festooned with tiny, white, pungently-scented blossoms, during the month of May.

Hawthorn is a native tree to the British Isles and in Irish Brehon law, dating from early Celtic times, the hawthorn was known as a ‘peasant tree’.

Hawthorn

Celtic tree calendar: 13 May to 9 June
  • Latin name: Crataegus
  • Irish/Gaelic name: Huath
  • Common names: whitethorn, may, hawberry, thornapple
  • Language of Flowers meaning: hope
  • Qualities: healing, protective, passion, commitment, challenge
  • Associations: Hera, Cardea, Henry VII, May Queen, Beltane, Culhwch & Olwen, Blodeuwedd, Glastonbury Thorn
Historic pollen records show hawthorn was in Britain at least as early as 6000BC.

The Gaelic name for hawthorn is ‘huath’ – which may also relate to the Anglo-Saxon word ‘haw’ which is believed to mean ‘hedge’.

Hawthorn is now widely used as a hedging plant after the 19th century General Enclosures Act, but in earlier times, the wood was used to make small personal items such as knife handles, combs and trinket boxes.

It’s a tree that grows alongside people and has become a part of our lives and traditions…

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Learning Calligraphy

23/4/2020

 
In this previous post, I spoke about a renewed interest in our Celtic history and culture, my personal links with this, and how I’ll be introducing Celtic knotwork elements into my nature-inspired artworks.

I also mentioned calligraphy as part of this. Calligraphy is another hobby I followed keenly as a child – right into my 20s I’d create calligraphy and decorated lettering for friends and family, often to celebrate births and marriages.

I’m afraid that in the last 20 years, I’ve rather left that by the wayside as illnesses and adult responsibilities caught up with myself and my household. But now, as with Celtic knotwork, my calligraphy is something that I’m recommitting myself to and learning/re-learning calligraphic skills.
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Learning calligraphy skills
Learning Calligraphy skills

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