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The Old

Burrow





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"There is a soft hour, at the turning of night into day, that calls to its light, an open-hearted imagination."



"The Old Burrow is not a story in the usual sense. It is a storied landscape, a threshold belonging to both the imaginal and the natural worlds, - a kind of numinous agreement between place and essence.

It grows through paintings, pages, symbols and hours: small yet joyous and playful acts of observing this threshold land.

Nothing here asks to be believed in, only noticed."



imagination as


sanctuary



Here in The Old Burrow, quiet gathers beneath all things. The imagination drifts through grey skies and muted woodlands, where images arrive upon the paper - like birds to an open hand - tentative, delicate, and full of unexpected truths.


Story and image, when shaped with care, become a kind of sanctuary: not an escape from the world, but a deeper way of being within it. And when we return from that still space, the world itself seems to shimmer anew - a flower more luminous, birds overhead like fireworks of joy, and the air aglow with the magic we had forgotten how to see.​


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The Old Burrow Compass


Magic . North . Truth




Magic - is perception beyond the obvious. It is noticing the flicker of a Jay's feather against winter light, the hidden lichen along a hedgerow, the glimpse of a rabbits tail and the whisper of a story that is not yet spoken.


North - is steadiness and bearing, a quiet compass in a noisy world. It steers curiosity, patience and delight in small things. It always points home yet will take you on adventures. It is both hearth and carriage.


Truth - is not confession, but a felt reality. It is the resonance that arises when a place, a moment, a story or a found treasure lands within you, carrying the luminous weight of a timeless recognition.



Symbols and Sigils



"Look closely - ribbons twist, keys glint, and crowns wait for their stories"





Symbols of


The Old Burrow



In the world of The Old Burrow, certain symbols appear again and again - ribbons, ruffs, crowns and bells. These quiet details are more than decoration; they are gentle markers of love, memory, and belonging. A ribbon tied around a paw might mark a promise, a friendship, or simply the acknowledgment of kindred souls. A ruff lends a creature a sense of quiet dignity, as though they've stepped from the realm of myth to the edge of our world and allowed us to see them. Crowns are not for rule but for reverence - a sign that even the smallest beings may be noble. And bells? Bells are for listening, for making thresholds, for moments when the invisible becomes near. These symbols and sigils grow naturally from the world of The Old Burrow, often arriving before their meaning is known. They are the souls embroidery, stitched into each painting with quiet intent. An intent that the imaginal knows and, we remember.



The Hours



and the Images.



The Hours



The Old Burrow Hours are a loose, living reckoning of time - shaped by light, season and attention rather than clocks. They take their quiet cue from medieval Books of Hours, but belong to no fixed calendar or religion.


Each painting, page or found fragment gathered in the Scriptorium is marked by its hour and season - a simple record of a moment being witnessed.



The Images



By the time you’ve reached this far down the path, you may already sense that there is something a little different about the way things are made here.


Over time, I came to realise that my artwork didn’t quite belong to any familiar tradition. It wasn’t just illustration, or watercolour, or storytelling. It was something quieter. Something that asked to be made and collected.


I realised I was gathering pages and moments that begin not with a plan but with a pause—a kind of soft attunement to the imaginal world. Sometimes, the images arrive like echoes from some older place; at other times, they emerge slowly, like dawn on a hedge-rowed lane. This is not just art as expression, but art as reverence. A conversation with the unseen. A quiet collaboration with wonder.


These quiet images have their roots in the ancient traditions. Much like the illuminators of old—those who painted tiny gold-leafed windows into the sacred—practitioners and creators of small, enchanted thresholds. Each piece is a kind of portal, offering the viewer a glimpse into the in-between: the misty hour before morning, the rustle beneath the hedgerow, the story between stories.




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