JULIA GUTHRIE

Charcoal, Pastel, Gold metal leaf 16"x23" ***Inspired by the darkly inspiring TV series 'The Leftovers'. Memories, loss, remembrance, & longing, all combined with Shamanic overtones of the afterlife. And a Raven to symbolise messages from the unseen world.

~ Charcoal, pastel, gold leaf ~ "Do you remember still the falling stars that like swift horses through the heavens raced and suddenly leaped across the hurdles of our wishes--do you recall? And we did make so many!

"A wolf's skin they gave her. In which herself she clad. Changed her feelings. Practised guile. Alter'd her aspect" - Norse Viking tales

Charcoal & gold leaf, 16 x 23" (A2 size). "You darkness that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world...." (From a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke)

Charcoal, pastel and gold leaf - 11.5 x 11.5" - "Stars burn clear all night till dawn. Do that yourself, & a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst if for. ~ Rumi"

~Charcoal, pastel, gold leaf~ "This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, & you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief"

7x10.5" Charcoal & gold leaf. The völvur were referred to by many names. The Old Norse word vǫlva means "wand carrier" or "carrier of a magic staff". Völur practiced seiðr, spá and galdr, practices which encompassed shamanism, sorcery, prophecy and other forms of indigenous magic.

charcoal, gold leaf, pastel, peacock feather. 15"x22" *** (Inspired by The Priestess Of Delphi by John Collier). "Put out my eyes & I can see you still. Slam my ears too & I can hear you yet. And without any feet can go to you. And tongueless I can conjure you at will. Break off my arms I shall take hold of you. And grasp you with my heart as with a hand. Arrest my heart, my brain will beat as true and if you set this brain of mine afire, then on my blood stream I yet will carry you. RMR

charcoal, gold leaf, pastel. 8x10 ***

Charcoal, pastel and gold leaf. 7x9" ***** "I already know the storms, and I'm as restless as the sea. I roll out in waves and fall back upon myself, and throw myself off into the air and am completely alone in the immense storm." -Rainer Maria

Charcoal, pencil, gold metal leaf *** "You cannot touch me, but your light fills the ocean where I live" - Rumi

Charcoal, pastel, gold leaf. 7x9" *** "you beloved, who were lost before the beginning, who never came..." Rainer Maria Rilke.

Charcoal, Pastel, gold metal leaf - "But a spark of loves fire can make the seas boil. I fell in, caught fire, and burned" - Yunus Emre.

16"x23" Charcoal and gold leaf "I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being " ~ Hafiz ~

Charcoal, gold leaf, pastel ~Beyond glass gates of dream In the bottomless mark of mirrors Wherever I had taken a piece of myself. A morning glory had sprouted. Forever pouring into the void of my soul. And in the sound of it's blossoming I was forever dying in myself. ~ *Sorab Sepheri *

Charcoal, pastel & gold (metal) leaf. 16"x23" ~Ask no questions of the Moth. In the candle flame of his face I have forgotten all the answers...~ Fahrid Ud Din Attar. ~

The Viking goddess of winter, Skadi is the embodiment of strength, courage and endurance.

"I trow I hung on that windy tree nine whole days and nights, stabbed with a spear, offered to Odin, myself to mine own given.

Norse Goddess Freyja. Along side Odin, she is a Shaman & practitioner of Seidr, a form of Shamanic magic.

Like Freya, Frigg is depicted as a völva, a Viking Age practitioner of the form of Norse magic known as seidr. Seidr is concerned with discerning destiny and altering its course by re-weaving part of its web. She is the wife of Odin & is the patron of marriage and motherhood.

charcoal, pastel, gold leaf 4.5"x6.5" *** The secret of the sea I uttered thunderously. Like a spent cloud on the shore I slept, & stirred no more " * Rumi.

Sepia pencil and charcoal.

...In the centre of my heart.

- Charcoal, pastel, gold leaf. 16"x23" ~ "The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don’t go back to sleep." ~Poem by Rumi~