Music and Magic from the Heart of Our Nature
If you’re out with a child — especially with a young child — and you remove the shackle of clock time (so you’re wandering, no agenda, no pressing time commitment), the world around you reveals its true extraordinary state. Children will be drawn to all manner of things in the landscape, and will overlay their …
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If you’re a magical naturalist, then it’s quite likely you sing when you’re adventuring in nature. (Many magical naturalists love to sing). And if you sing in nature, it may even be possible — perhaps even likely! — that you hear music in the wind, the ocean, in bird song. Perhaps the plants sing to …
Jane Valencia creates botanical and fairy illustration to inspire you to dwell in an enchanted world. She works with watercolor or gouache, pen and ink, and sometimes also with colored pencil and beeswax crayons. Myth, nature, and gentle mystery infuse her illustrations. Visit Jane’s shop on Red Bubble to view or purchase her illustrations on …