Briar Rose.

Here are six varied sketches I made for unrelated projects or simple, fun warm-up exercises! I think they look pretty together :)

What I was thinking for each sketch:

1. Noldor elves/ Feanor/ 2. I love oak trees!/ 3. I love storms/ 4. THRANDUILION! Legolas and another brother riding through the woods. Inspired partially by encountering and reading the lovely deep-lore fics of @sotwk which centre around Thranduil and his family/ 5. Yes Uve been re-reading the Iliad and re-watching Troy (2004) and it shows lol/ 6. I was thinking about the Anduin river and how it might look from a boat, near the wide shore.

Prints available in Etsy shop. Cat not included. Check bio for shop link! ✨

Prints of this piece are now available via my Etsy shop :)

I have finally got around to making this illustration available in my Etsy shop! ✨

I have to give huge credit to my dear friend @sotwk whose beautiful and rich writings concerning her Mirkwood OPs inspired this painting :) thank you! 🤍🍀

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I’ve been away recently illustrating, editing and formatting my poetry for publication :) This weekend, at an autumn Arts Festival near Cambridge, I finally exhibited quarto 1 of 4 that will comprise my “20 Years By Moonlight” anthology! 🌕 Slowly, projects are coming together.

Apologies for my absence - I’ll be catching up on correspondence here now I have some time and space! Yay! And posting new art. Bises x

A WIP post featuring LQ photos of my procreate canvases from various projects: all are either new but unfinished paintings, or old ones I’m revising in some way…

Test prints came out LOVELY! :)

(If you’re interested in purchasing fine art prints of my paintings, please do go and visit my shops!)

I’m adding new prints all the time ✨

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I now have a Folksy shop where I sell my prints! It’s essentially like Etsy used to be 🤍 and it is based here in the U.K.

Cottage industry businesses like mine are fighting for oxygen in a space now clogged with mass manufactured goods that drown out our work with mass marketing and spam.so please consider supporting small creative businesses! :)

I’ll be adding lots more of my illustrations in coming weeks, too. Please take a look & share/ like 🍀 every interaction helps so much for a small creative business like mine! Thank you!

(I now print my own fine art prints of my illustrations, since I purchased a beautiful pro inkjet printer for top notch giclée printing. I use fine art, heavyweight museum etching paper of archival quality 👌✨)

"Imagination" by G M Kaye on INPRNT

How does it feel to read a book you love, and lose yourself in realms of fantasy and imagination?! That’s what I asked myself when I started to paint this piece.