Sarah Owen

Art inspired by nature, wildlife and folklore, painted in acrylics and watercolours, some in textiles, made with love, and intended to bring joy. Find them at etsy.com/uk/shop/rustya… #animals #flowers #myths #shopsmall #birds #paintings

"We need to remember & recall that our own thrival depends on weaving ourselves back into relationship with our community. The wild community of rooted, winged, four legged, scaled, dark, soft, teeth filled, stormy, tender & green. Too often we look to humans & only humans for our health, our sanity, our sense of connection and community. Having learnt to believe that it is only among man that we will find wisdom, grace, medicine and friendship. Yet I believe much of our health & happiness relies on our connections to the more than human, to the health of the soil, to worm, the soft fungi, the robins song, the lichen, the entanglement of roots, the reaching ivy & the medicine of weeds. The earths wellbeing, along with our own mental & physical health has declined hugely due to the great many of steps we have taken to disentangle ourselves from our wildness & our more than human community." ——————— • Words by Brigit Anna McNeill • • Art by Ruth Evans •

Step into the portal. Photograph taken on Glastonbury Tor this morning at sunrise.

"At the edge of our world, at the edge of the otherworld, the beautiful and mysterious faeries stand, watching and waiting to greet us, inviting us to journey with them as our guides while we walk the infinite paths of the Faerie." ~ Brian Froud art: Thomas Maybank #FaerieFriday

You'll want to be sitting down for this bit. Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts since 1989 and an average of 35% of your bill goes on nothing but paying more interest and yet more dividends. And not a single company has ever lost their operating licence. 👇

No washing on Whit Sunday!You would get ill and not recover, while a person who slept outdoors on Whit Sunday might become insane.Holy water was sprinkled especially copiously at this time in the home, on the farm and on animals #Folklore

(Amanda) I want to ask you a favour today - if you live in the UK would you please sign this? It's called a 'petition' and even though I don't understand what it is, I know it's important. Maybe you could tell other humans about it and ask them to sign it too. I'll tell you more about the special August thing tomorrow. Here's the petition - petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7506…

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

Nothing prepares you for how delightfully strange the Mabinogion is. There is a woman made of flowers, a cauldron that can revive the dead, a giant claw that steals horses, an underworld of feasts & hunting. Anyone with an interest in the roots of fantasy fiction must read it.

"Myths show us what we have in common with every other human being, no matter what culture we come from, no matter what century we live in, and at the same time, mythic stories and art celebrate our essential differences" ~ Alan Lee art: Alan Lee

A closed season to protect pregnant hares was promised – where is the legislation? “In the King’s Speech last week, the government quietly dropped a bill that would have finally given legal protection to hares after centuries of persecution” Why???? Such a simple thing to save beautiful hares and their families #madness politicshome.com/opinion/articl…

Some threads become A Gordian knot, Different bloodlines Tangled in fury And rage, But from that Knotted wreck, Some hold true, A silver tether Of stardust Binding us Across time itself. #VSS365 #FamilyTies #WritingCommunity #Poetry #MothersLove

Looking for an upbeat read? A new kind of hero? *Won PINNACLE Best Science Fantasy & IAN Best Science Fiction ENJOY NOW! .99 amazon.com/dp/B01MA1ZOJ6 MORE books2read.com/b/m2ZMno *For Young Adults 9 to 99

"Burkes' ability to create an entire world, a world that's as real as anything with so few words is remarkable. Within a few sentences, I'm there. I enjoy these books so very much." *WON IAN Best First Novel & Finalist Best SciFi *ENJOY NOW! .99 amazon.com/dp/B00K9DHTU2 #IARTG

P'nawn Da #WelshCraftHour just started a stashbuster jumper - can't get a decent photo (it's warmer than this photo), but it's got pinks, reds, mustard, brown, and burnt orange so it's a bit zingy!

My postcard art for the #postcardartexhibit Thank you @PAEartforacause 💜

CAT ADVISORY: It's very hot across the UK this weekend. All cats should find the coolest spot in their home and stay there. Tell your staff to bring chilled snacks and water every 15 minutes.

@P_J_Richards Carew Castle is lovely, went there ages ago. Have a great time! 💜🏰🏹

🏹🏰⚔️I'm away for the next few days, living my best medieval life in Carew Castle!💚 🌞Wishing everyone a wonderful, sunny weekend!

the distant hum of a day remembered 🧡💜💚 Oil pastel with water

Hard days had Led her down An inhospitable path, Where treasure Flourished On barren land; The blackthorn, The cow parsley... The small bird Perched on Her misshapen hand. #VSS365 #WritingCommunity #Poetry