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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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Merry Christmas 2020

23/12/2020

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After a year like no other, a Christmas like no other... for many of us, Christmas plans aren't what we'd hoped for this year - but however you're celebrating, I wish you a happy festive period and hope you and your family can all enjoy yourselves in a special 2020 way!
Merry Christmas robin art
Merry Christmas 2020
Thank you so much for all your support this year - it means the world to me.

See you in 2021!

Stay safe...
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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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Lockdown Window Art

10/12/2020

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'Window on the World' - my lockdown window art created during the UK's second lockdown in November 2020...
Lockdown window art - window and vases - by Lotti Brown
'Window and Vases' lock down window artwork by Lotti Brown
Over 2020, home has become such an important place for us - our safe place, our work place, our family, our base for all of life, now - I wanted to create an artwork about this. This is inspired by my real-life window and the vases, plants, and nature that are on my windowsill.

In this artwork, I'm inside the home, and I have brought some of nature inside - but I'm still looking out, through my window, at the wintery world outside...
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Collecting Meaningful & Personal Drawing Inspiration from Nature

27/11/2020

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How to use being mindful in nature to collect meaningful and personal inspiration for your expressive art drawings…
Our objectives are:
  • to understand that creativity, drawing and mindful connections with nature can lead to calm, balance, happiness, achievement, and a feeling of fulfilment.

  • to understand the importance of ‘stopping’ and quiet ‘nothing’ time for mindfulness and creativity.

  • to learn to experience nature fully and start noticing.
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  • to use these mindful moments to start collecting your own nature moments to be the inspiration for your artwork. 
Nature and creativity
Finding inspiration in nature

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20% Off Original Drawings

26/11/2020

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There's a cool 20% off my original drawings for just a few days in my Etsy store...
Wildlife original drawings UK
Original wildlife drawings
Your chance to own a beautiful, one-off original drawing - gift it to someone special for Christmas or drop a big hint so that you can get it for yourself...
Fox original drawing
Fox original art drawing
Barn owl original drawing
Barn owl original art drawing
Bear original art drawing for sale
Bear original drawing
Offer ends 1st December 2020

​Find the drawings in my Etsy store now...
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Nature Lover Gift Ideas

20/11/2020

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Nature lover gift ideas for friends and family who love nature, plants, trees, flowers, wildlife and birds.

Give the gift of nature and inspire a love of our natural world with these pretty and colourful nature lover goodies...
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Ornamental Tree Hangings

Ideal Christmas decor or a Christmas stocking-filler gift...
Ornamental tree hangings
Ornamental tree hangings
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Beautiful ceramic ornamental hangings for tree, wall, doors, and more - makes an excellent stocking filler or gift for a friend...
  • printed both sides
  • comes with a red ribbon
  • optional gift pouch available
Holly and ivy tree hangings
Holly & ivy nature tree hangings
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Celtic Elder Art & Folklore

18/11/2020

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Celtic elder art and tree calendar art - plus a dive into the folklore, history and meaning of the elder tree...
Celtic elder art
Celtic elder art
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Elder is one of our smaller hedgerow trees, growing wild in many places and self-seeding often.

It’s a tree that humans have used for thousands of years - and has a lot of folklore and superstition attached to it…

It’s thought that the name ‘elder’ comes from the Anglo-Saxon words ‘ellaern’ meaning ‘hollow tree’ and/or ‘aeld’ meaning fire, as the hollow twigs were used to spark a fire into life by blowing air into it.
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The Anglo-Saxons also used the words ‘eller’ and ‘kindler’ to refer to the wood of the elder, so we can see how the word ‘elder’ started to evolve.
Celtic tree calendar art - elder
Celtic Tree Calendar version --- 24 Nov - 23 Dec
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Elder

Celtic Tree Calendar: 24 November to 23 December​
  • Latin name: Sambucus nigra
  • Irish/Gaelic name: Ruis
  • Common names: Ellhorn, Lady Ellhorn, Hylder, Alhuren, Eldrum, pipe tree, sweet elder
  • Language of Flowers meaning: zealousness
  • Qualities: regeneration, fertility, healing, otherworld, balance, wisdom, knowledge, calm, winter, witches, wise women, cooling, fairies, crone goddess,
  • Associations: Elder Mother, Lady Elder, Lady Ellhorn, Holda, Cailleach

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Butterflies - New Colours

16/11/2020

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I've been having a little play about with the colours of my recent Butterflies & Blooms artworks and I wanted to show you the new colourway ideas I came up with - have a look and let me know what you think...
Autumn butterflies art brown and yellow
Autumn moth art - moon moth, pink and brown

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New Butterflies Art & Products

12/11/2020

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New butterflies artworks and products in a pretty cottage garden style with pinks, browns, ochres, golds and greens....
Butterflies art in pretty cottagecore style
Pretty butterflies in pink, ochre gold and brown
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Moth art - pink, yellow, brown
Moth artwork - pink, yellow, brown
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I love these artworks - they're very pretty and kind of nostalgic with a cottagey, sweet feel - perfect to lose yourself in fairytales of butterflies and flowers...

I created the artworks digitally from my original pen and pencil drawings... just click on the images below if you'd like to see them larger...

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