Rebecca Jane Stockburn

The Three Gwenhwyfars

The Birth of Blodeuwedd

Melangell's Hare, 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

Hawthorn Blossoms

Watercolour, sold

Brigid, Watercolour, Sold

Irish goddess of spring, dawn, poetry, metalwork, and healing.

The Heralds of Spring

Watercolour, sold

Branwen and the Fledgling, Watercolour, 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.

Owain Glyndwr, 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.

Chang'E, Watercolour, Sold

Melangell Under the Yew Tree, Sold

Mary Magdalene, Watercolour, Sold

Sockburn Worm

In the folklore of Northumbria, the Sockburn Worm was a fierce wyvern that laid waste to the village of Sockburn in Durham. It was said that the beast was finally slain by John Conyers. The tale is likely the inspiration for Lewis Carroll's poem Jabberwocky which he wrote while staying nearby. Each newly consecrated Bishop-Prince of Durham was presented with the Conyers Falchion whilst going over the River Tees. The tale may be inspired by the Viking longship which had worm heads on the bow.

Saint Melangell, Watercolour, Sold

Saint Melangell is a Welsh saint and patroness of hares, whose feast day is celebrated, and originally established on May 27th, 590AD. The daughter of an Irish king, she went to Powys to become a hermit. The prince of Powys, Brochwel Ysgithrog, granted her land after meeting her on a hunting trip in which she rescued a hare from his dogs. She founded a community of women, serving as abbess for 37 years. Her shrine remains at St Melangell's Church, Pennant Melangell.

Butterfly Lovers

A Chinese tragic love story between the scholar Liang Shanbo 梁山伯, and Zhu Yingtai 祝英台. The story is now counted as one of China's Four Great Folktales.

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.

Pink Lilies, sold

Sunflowers

Pieta, sold