I thought it was lovely!  Very positive, and very much a celebration of Nature.  There is a wistfulness about it, what made you decide to put this together now?

Wow - you are one talented soul!  Your art work is very expressive and I particularly liked the sense of movement in your drawings.  Some of them made me feel like I just HAD to jump into the pictures to dance with the people already there.  Thank yo so much for sharing.

wow, you are quite talented, they are beautiful 

Brightphoebus, that was fantastic. And 'ode to you paganism' is right, what a celebration of the earthly visions! Very cool.

Did you grow up in England or are you just reminiscing about your past life as a minstrel in mediaeval England times? 

A lot of those look like self portraits, i.e. at 31 seconds?

Beautiful!

Well done! You show talent at both creating and arranging art.  Thank you.

Sigh, it is moments like this I mourn the loss of my sound card.  However even in silence your images Elanorgold were beautiful.

btw, I have subscribed, I'm looking forward to more and hopefully with sound

LB

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They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

     Frida Kahlo

Thank you so much folks.

Why now? Ummm, well I went looking for Green Crown songs on Youtube and saw there was only one, and thought that was no good and needed correcting, so I started looking for images of the band and their sleeve art, and hubby said, "why don't you use your own artwork?" I had been thinking of doing a slideshow of my drawings since I started making youtube clips a few short months ago. Those particular images have long been special to me and it was a fun thought to put them all together like this, introspective, looking at it that way. I also thought it could bring joy and insight to others.

Kay: I'm delighted!

So glad Blackbelt.

Neo, I went to England when I was 21 and came back when I was 24, having traveled through that lovely country, met many people, worked there and married there. It was like a pilgrimage going there, to the old land and seeing the old places. Yes, that's me as Squanto girl. The movie Squanto is about a native boy who had a part in the beginning of Thanksgiving, and I found the film and the cover of the film very compelling.

I hope you'll be able to get a soundcard soon LB! I've subscribed to you as well. : )

Here's the titles of the images:

-Silent Morning (aka: Naked People in the Forest)

-Fertility (these first two were both done in grade 12)

-Squanto Girl

-Medieval Tune (a rework of a cd cover I have)

-Gabriola Forest

-Jessica with an Amulet (inspired by the new age shops of Glastonbury)

-Musician

-(Rea Valley, Shropshire) photo

-Bronze Age Hut Building on Dartmoor

-Earth and Sky in Conversation

-Fairies

-Larry Fairy

-Hilltop

-Pagan Gathering

-(Mallyan Spout, Goathland, North Yorkshire Moors) photo

-Pagan me

-Bronze Age Woman (showing the hardship of her times on her face)

-Longing

-Herne the Hunter, Lord of the Trees

-Anglo-Saxon Morris Men (this one was damaged on our cabin wall, I tried to fix it)

-The Horned God and Goddess (of prehistoric origin, still venerated by Wiccans today)

-Folk Dancer

-Maypole

-Pagan Wedding

-Bride

-Young Pagans

-Gathering Goldenrods (she is saying a prayer to the plants before she picks them)

-Apples

-Forest Couple

-Ritual Man (wearing his bronze sun disc belt, worn by the Teutonic people)

-(near Fingle Bridge, Dartmoor, Devonshire) photo

-(near Nawton, North Yorkshire Moors) photo

A picture is worth a thousand words ... thousand in Hebrew being the fullness of time!

The many of these images remind me a thav and teth in the Hebrew lettering system ... showing two heads together and an upset of containment ... error of possession ... when nothing was ours to begin with ... just a loan of intellect when set in the right surroundings we are tested ...for the move ...

Then any move is an affront to institutional belief ... life is a joke ... or just pun on the stoned?

This us allows us to see nature and life in a fixed impression ... imagination ... foot of the mind bare foot beastie in the trees ... the fear of mankind for falling for druids? 

I've looked at images several times now, I think my favourite is the very first. There's about naked people in the bush I guess

Elanorgold,

as I've written afore, I suspect you have a bit of fae in you :3  (though what kind of fae, that would take a bit more investigation...Gemmin, perhaps?)

I adore the light in the green in "Silent Morning".

(and is that your sweetie's face I see on Herne's gob?)

"Squanto Girl" reminds me of a Kelpie (I can feel the water magick around her)

One of my fav's, of course, is "Medieval Tune" -- such happy animals :3

And so many pretty outfits in your piccies!

You, if you haven't before, should check out Canadian writer Charles de Lint who deals a lot with fae in his stories.  He has created a mythical city called Newford, which is a mixture of various cities he likes.  You might want to start communication with him sometimes, because he seems to keep in touch with artists and musicians :3  (who he writes aboot sometimes to a wide readership).  His stories are set in the modern day, but with the mythical intertwined with it.

Very nice, Elanorgold! This is the nature spirituality many of us feel but few are able to express eloquently  in pictures. Like Neo, the very first is my favourite.

Thank you for sharing your pagan drawings with us.

Elanorgold,

I found this link to this Joni Mitchell song on your Youtube site. I've had this song my mind for about 2 weeks now. I never thought to look for a video of it but when I saw it I couldn't resist playing it. This is about as close to angelic as I can think of.

Enjoy everyone. Play in loud and in full screen.

I was led to that song by David Gilmour's desert island discs selections. I think it's beautiful, and I'm so pleased Gilmour knows what the song says. Of cource he does.

Arminius, so glad you found my post, and happy you enjoyed the drawings.

The first image is about humankind being a part of nature, and finding inner peace and solace in that knowing. It is a dawning of that knowing. A lot of the kids in my art class didn't get it at the time. But I know you do.

Inanna, thanks I'll check out that writer. I have written to a writer before. Ian Lawton, and he wrote me back. I wrote to Brendan Perry, he did not write me back. Perhaps if I had asked a question he would have...

Waterbuoy, I'm glad you enjoyed the slideshow... at least I think you did. I can see it made you think, and that's good.

I'm glad you drew my attention to this thread, Elanorgold.

Your drawings are beautiful - and express the inner you so well.

Your world is wide, you exist in many realms.

Some powerful and compelling images.

Thanks for sharing your drawings, Elanorgold.

Thanks ladies! : D

I would love to hear from more ministers regarding paganism in general, and what thoughts and feelings the images of the horned god, and pagan reverence, inspire in you? What do you think of it?

Please, I have always wanted to know.

Eleanorgold, your artwork is superb. I particularly enjoyed the black and white drawings. Sometimes colour can be so dazzling that we actually miss details. Thank you for sharing this.

Paganism itself neither attracts me nor bothers me (although it does intrigue me) and so in all honesty the images "inspired" little in me except an appreciation of the talent that is so clearly shown in them.

As I've said before Pagan is an old expression of "common folk" fallout of heaven ... a dimension in which they don't think ... thus can't see the missed truth's that authority impose as order.

Non-thinking common folk is the paradigm now ... of ignorance of what hurts the whole thing ... is bliss. A wee pain is enough to wake the dead when you realize you being screwed up from above. Have you ever looked at the powers that surround us?

Is this no recognizance ... or just numinous ... a glowing thorny issue? What; a burning goad ... in the Shadow of a word that's God?

The humble powers role in the isles ... that's out-ve-here eh! Something beyond the ferme and rigid sole of ominous signs ... lie the story of mind ... flighty psyche ... IT moves tue ...

RevSteven, Thank you very much. I appreciate that.

Once long ago, around the time I did those drawings, I wrote a note to ministers in general, and photocopied it, and intended to slip it under the doors of all the churches I came across, pleading that the services include care and respect for the Earth, that we should look after it, and do all we can for the environment. I only ever left it at one church, cause I lost the gumption. And that was as close as I ever got to speaking to a minister about what was important to me. Our connection with the Earth and our place as a part of nature, and my reverence for nature at that time.

The drawing at the end, of the man with his arms raised, expresses that reverence, the woman with her hands together above her head expresses the ecstasy of knowing how wonderful existence is and feeling completely content and joyous in that knowledge.

Wonderful pictures Elanor, and not just because I'm Pagan.

You may not wear the name of Pagan now, but you still have the heart of the Goddess in you.

Those were absolutely beautiful Eleanorgold. You're much more talented than you give yourself credit for. Thank you so much for sharing with us.

Aww Thanks Witch!

Thanks Jon too. My eyes tear up...

Art and spirituality are close kin to me. And you know, I think it's so great that we can all come together like this and share it.

I have so long wanted to be understood, especially by christianity. And I think we have commonalities in our spirituality. I know christians feel that ecstacy too.