The Dim Light – Newly released Print!

Hello and a happy new week to you! I hope you had a wonderful weekend and are excited about the week to come. I like Mondays – they are always full of such possibility and a chance to believe and hope (if only for a moment) that I am going to get alot of my to-do-list [...]

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A moment in time….a gift

So the last couple of days I have been telling you of our amazing trip to London – today I wanted to tell you about the reason we were there… As many of you know, I was diagnosed with breast cancer last year and although I have made a good recovery, it was a rollercoaster [...]

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24hr SALE Launched!!

At last! After a very late night making draft listings in my etsy shop (2am I went to bed…) the sale has now gone live in my shop! Most of the clay characters are there and I have 2 more to add just now as well as changing the prices of some of my textile [...]

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Katya, Tomas and Aurek….

Katya collects books on wildflowers and spends her days painting delicate watercolours which she leaves in all sorts of places for strangers to discover and enjoy. Under bottles of milk left at the villagers front doors, tucked in hedgerows and hanging from tree’s. Nobody knows the identity of the mysterious artist but each picture is [...]

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Alexei and Sasa

Alexei, originally uploaded by gilfling. Alexei lives in the heart of the forest, and spends his days paddling in rivers, singing folk songs to any being that will listen and skimming stones. He only returns to his old wooden cottage at dusk where he carves animals out of fallen branches displaying them in ever nook [...]

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Ilya … and an announcement

Ilya, originally uploaded by gilfling. Ilya is a shy poet. He likes to walk for miles and miles, drifting and dreaming. Inspired by his surroundings, he carries a well-worn journal and sketches and writes of the fairies that can be glimpsed through the mist as they fly over and under the twisted branches of the hawthorn [...]

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Spring Sale!

fragments of nature, originally uploaded by gilfling. Just thought I would let you know that I am having a spring sale in my accessories shop on my ‘fragments’ brooches. For a 20% discount on the listed prices just use coupon code SPRINGSALE at checkout. x

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Happiness is……..

There are many small joys along the way in creating artwork…various points where it is impossible not to smile at being able to do this for a living. The pinnacle of course is seeing a happy customer walking away delighted with a piece of artwork that they have purchased and the knowledge that they ‘get’ [...]

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Jacob

Jacob, originally uploaded by gilfling. Quickly posting this before I run out on a few errands and then meet a friend for coffee. I had so much more I wanted to write this week but time has ran away from me! This new character is now finished and his name is Jacob. He is very [...]

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A great weekend…

Marek, originally uploaded by gilfling. Hello friends! I didn’t get to making my usual monday mosaic based on my flickr friends yesterday as I was absolutely exhausted after a long week of working 12-15 hours a day last week and then 2 days at SOCK at the weekend selling my wares. I will never get over how [...]

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