The three hares

I now have some lovely new greetings cards of my Three Hares of Chagford painting complete with the poem which is also written on the back, you can get these from my Three Hares Gallery in Chagford or through my website www.threeharesgalleryshop.co.uk Once Tinners Rabbits Now Hares of Granite Their meaning a mystery Obscured in history Some carved in wood Some made of clay Some easy to find Some hidden away The Three Hares of Chagford Are there to be found Ears joined together Round and…

Triple Hare Plaque

Why, you may well be asking, have I chosen ‘The Three Hares’ as the title for this blog? I confess, it’s a bit of a self-indulgence. It has to be called something, so it may as …

The Three Hare Motif has been one of the most enigmatic symbols in history.

3 Hares Talisman

Corey Egbert on Instagram: “The three hares - an ancient mysterious symbol appearing in many cultures... and as a sticker in my booth at Culpeper tomorrow :) . .…”

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( - p.mc.n. ) the familiar 'rabbit/hare trinity' -- here labelled "Unser seindt vier" [We are four/there's four of us]. from the album amicorum of Frederick IV of the Palatine [UB Heidelberg, Pal. Ger. 619 -- this is f.47v. entries are dated 1582-1605]. Here we have an interesting association with the motif of the 2 fools who say "we are three" -- making the viewer by his/her puzzled inquiry the 3rd! The hare also has traditional associations of folly -- cf. Eng. "mad as a march hare"

the familiar Hasendrei/Hare Trinity motif. Design for shooting target dated 1628 painted in the Coburger Scheibembuch -- here scanned from K-S Kramer's wonderful edition ((Coburg 1989).

Three Hares, Autumnal Equinox

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The symbol features three hares or rabbits chasing each other in a circle. Each of the ears is shared by two hares, so that only 3 ears are shown. These may have been created to imply the contrast of the Divine with man’s sinful, earthly nature.— rabbits can carry very positive symbolic connotations

3 hares

The Three Hares is not found in the medieval bestiary but much like The Pelican in her Piety it is a common motif in medieval church carvings. Its meaning is something of a mystery and depictions of it in medieval art have been found as far west as Devon, England and as far East Dunhuang, China. This image was the only one cut from a lino plate while the others have been made to look like linocuts. The plate itself was about 11 inches in diameter which is pretty colossal for a linocut and…

Rabbits! Rabbits! Rabbits!

While I would have liked to claim this motif as an original idea, my illustration is actually based on a motif that is centuries old. It's called 'The Three Hares' and its origin has been traced back to the 6th Century AD (or CE - Common Era) in China. It seems that many other religions and cultures around the world have also used this rather mesmerizing optical illusion. I enjoyed sketching it in this simple state, doodling around with the background. Micron pens in a sketchbook, 15 cm in…