Baba Yaga's

Traveller's travelling persona

Belated birthday wishes for Heather

Strength

I posted this collage as my performance piece for the Gorgon at the House of Serpents.



The words on it may be hard to read. They are:

Strength is
daring to reach for the stars
singleness of purpose
never fearling your own uniqueness
knowing when to stand tall and when to bend
thriving no matter what surrounds you.

Gypsy Rose Enchanteur at Faucon's Wedding

Woven view of Koshchey's palace

Spanish Dancers

Portrait Doll of My Travelling Persona

The Enchantress

The Enchantress in the Bath-House

Foot Bath and Snake Pumice
This is a particularly stimulating foot bath. After soaking use a snake to smoothe away calluses - it will leave your feet feeling soft.
20z lavender
half and oz of thyme
1oz of sage
1tsp sea salt

Performing at the Hermitage

Regina

Faerie Ring

At Baba Yaga's

Blind Murty and the dog Roisin

A bit of photo manipulation using two images from my scrapbook and some hand drawn potatoes. This image is posted at the Gypsy Camp with a ballad about Blind Murty and Roisin.

Soul Hands - The Greening

Milagro

Milagros are prayers of a sort, created in Mexico, and, I assume, other Latin American countries that are Catholic. They are often in the shape of the thing prayed for...eyes for good vision, hearts for safe journey through open heart surgery or love, etc...I loved this idea, and this hand is one of my visions of the milagro. Hands can plant all sorts of seeds, some of which I have listed around the border. May our hands be miracles of the everyday.

cave journal covers

These are the covers I created for my cave journal. The front cover has a picture of me in a boat in a cave, taken many years ago. The back cover is a picture of Minerva, goddess of wisdom. I wonder if I will learn any on my travels.

Winter is a Memory

Playing around with a new programme,

so here is a variation on an old

theme - reminding me Winter

is all but by me, and though it was nice, Spring

is most welcome....art is fun.

Jaguar Spirit

Inspired by my talks with Baba Yaga, I have returned to creating art in earnest - this was drawn in Paint Shop Pro and modified through filters to give the final effect.

The Inner Dancer

Ancestors

Diana's Bell

Gypsy Dance

I will be participating in a sketchbook round robin starting in September. Today I started looking around for a sketchbook to use. I really was looking for a good reason to buy a new book, but a small book called to me screaming, "USE ME!!" It's a little book I received free for being a member of the One Spirit book club. It says "One Spirit" on the cover. I thought it would be cool to pass this book around in the hopes that my fellow artists would feel the spirit through which we are all one.

I didn't mean to make my first entry in the book. I was just planning to get it ready. I put a message in the front cover and created a sign-in page. That's as far as I was planning on taking it...but it had other ideas. I noticed in front of me a print I had made of a painting I created a few months ago. I had scanned in the painting and printing it out on canvas paper. Then I embellished the image with more paint and beads and such. It sat there calling to me as if it were the image of the spirit that connects us all. The sketchbook could not leave my hands without this image inside.

Without knowing anything else, I began making an entry in this sketchbook. I am thrilled with the way it turned out...and I'm not usually one who is thrilled by my own art.

Baba Yaga Doll

The Doll that the Enchantress gave me to guide me to Baba Yaga's House. the photo unfortunately does not do her justice. She is a deep purple colour with metallic thread bound about her middle.

Model of a gypsy caravan

Gail's miniature model of a gypsy caravan for the art room.

Path to Gypsy Camp

meditation in the galaxy

The Gorgon

by Heather Blakey
August 10th 2005

Hermitage Art Room

The Hermitage Art Room attracts travellers from all over the world who journey with Sibyl, the a twenty first century Enchanteur, who travels through cyber space, guiding travellers to quirky destinations. The Art Room is just one of the sanctuaries they rest their weary bones in. The fresh air and solitude inspires amazing work.