The Old Burrow: 2020

Friday, 25 December 2020

A Gift From The Old Burrow

Dear Reader, I know I have not been here very regularly at over the past few years, but I wanted to share with you a little of what I have been doing very slowly as I have been convalescing.

So here is my little Christmas gift to you. It's a little pilot magazine with art, stories and musings about the Imagination. I hope you enjoy it.

The Old Burrow e-magazine Winter 20/21

Warmest wishes to you and your loved ones,

Catkin

the story so far...

Born 'Down Under' but now happily 'right side up', I now live among the bearded old trees and river-song of the Scottish Borderlands. Surrounded by this natural magic it is all to easy to allow paint and story to create portals into a world beyond. An in-between world inhabited by the strange and yet familiar, the peculiar and yet charming.

In each picture there is a tale for the telling. Both curious and intriguing, they are invitations to delve into the imagination and take your place amongst the characters. To recognise that the realm of Story is a living entity that welcomes your interaction.

“Creating pictures for me is much the same as gradually opening the shutters, or drawing the curtains to peer through an open window into the realm of Untold Stories. Staring into blank paper, images begin to appear in the whiteness. Then gently, softly, pencil and paint explore the landscape and embrace it’s creatures and it’s people. For a brief moment I am honoured to be present in a land both familiar and fantastic.”