The Artist and her Woodland Realm
🌙 Just someone with a little fantasy world living in her head and a pocket full of moss 🌙
Once upon a now, in a forest older than memory…
Between the Wye and the Severn, where mist lingers like lullabies and moss grows thick with secrets, I found my home—a crooked stone cottage tucked deep in the Royal Forest of Dean, up a winding track foxes know better than maps.
Here, the trees are watchers. Timekeepers. Their roots drink from stories buried long ago, and their branches cradle the hush between worlds. The paths I walk aren’t for steps, but for listening. The wind carries riddles. The rivers remember. And the creatures—fox, owl, badger, kingfisher—don’t just pass through. They arrive with purpose.
Echoes of the Woodland Realm began like a dream—quietly, insistently, like a memory returning. One day I picked up a pencil, and a fox stepped forward. Then an owl. Then a heron with eyes like dusk. Each one came not as a subject, but as a summoning.
These aren’t just drawings. They’re invitations. Each creature I paint is a keeper of balance, a whisper of the wild soul we’ve nearly forgotten. They gather across seasons like constellations—forming a living myth with every brushstroke.
The realm isn’t mine alone. It’s a shared remembering. A call to those who feel the pull of old paths, who believe stories live in feathers and fur, in lichen and leaf. Through Echoes of the Woodland Realm, I honour the wild ones who protect the land even when we forget to look.
Step softly. The circle is open. The guardians are waiting. And the forest remembers.
About the Artist
Crafting worlds unseen through an imagination tangled in moss and myth.
About Me
I am a self taught artist specialising in pastels and charcoal after starting out with graphite and coloured pencils. Pastels are a wonderful medium, vibrant and soft and in pencil form, actually very clean. I am also currently learning to paint in acrylics and oils so I may be adding them to my portfolio in the near future.
The Studio
After making a mess on a lovely cream carpet in the living room, I was gently moved into the garage (it was turned into a studio) but after beginning to offer private tuition, I now use a purpose built log cabin and dedicated art space which I open several times a year to the public as part of art trails in the local area.
Events
In a previous realm I exhibited and demonstrated my pet portraits regularly with the Herefordshire Guild of Craftsmen and we attended some wonderful shows every year. Sadly Covid-19 kept us all home for quite some time and it may be something I do again in the future.
Materials
Information about the supplies I use.
Pencils
I use many types of pencils - pastel, colour, wax based, oil based, watercolour, charcoal and graphite from Derwent, Stabilo, Pitts, Caran D'ache, Conte a Paris. I don't find one brand better than any other and love having a large array of colours to choose from.
Additional Materials
Pencils are a slow medium to use but there are other materials you can use to speed things up. Solvents, panpastels, pastel sticks and neopastels are a few extras which help by enabling creation of base layers and then using the pencils on top for details.
Papers
I use this pastelmat paper a lot of the time. It comes in many shades and allows multiple layers of pencil to be added without the nap being filled up too quickly. I also use watercolour paper, cartridge paper and toned paper too.
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