This lovely chap’s work has a quality that is so beautiful, one feels as though you could be looking at paintings from long ago. There’s a romantic and feminine thread here where one is rather inclined to wish to get to know those figures in the frames. Ian Daniels detail of the female form is delightful, his male characters have a great strength and there’s a story woven through it all, myths, legends and faerie tales. His rich colours use light as a magical quality and are so luxurious, contrasted with his immensely detailed black and white studies that cross to the darker side of fantasy art with a more pagan style. Ian has been extremely popular as a book illustrator for many years with some impressive authors! A more gentle soul you could not wish to meet though, so many of these awesome artists are so humble and such a delight to talk with. There’s a feature on Ian’s wonderful work in Faerie Magazine International coming up soon, what a joy - http://hometown.aol.co.uk/iandanielsart/home.html

(photos here) Well, what can I say here, we’re in Bunny heaven. Our favourite time of the year though is in the spring after the kits are born and venturing out for the first time. I’m not ashamed to say, I think they’re really cute. The only problem is when it gets to the summer and they’re a bit braver, and play ‘chicken’ with each other across the lane in front of the car… Why is it that instead of just jumping into the bank, that they insist on running down the road in front of you for ages, I’m sure they’re laughing their heads off! Some larger ones are brave enough to come up near to the back door to nibble at the more tender shoots and I’m sure that if our garden hadn’t fallen into a wilderness these past years working in faerie (I’m beginning to see a suspicious pattern here) then I’d be cursing them if I’d got vegetables planted. As it is, they’re most welcome to my weeds and I am always thrilled to see these shy wild creatures with their white behinds bounding about the garden.

Magical Blessings, Be

“Create your own myth.” - Rumi