The Shaman's HorseRe-Birth
Posted on April 10, 2021
Re-birth.It’s hard to remember it’s Spring as it’s so chilly today but Beltane is less than four weeks away. Beltane – welcome in the Summer !
BLINK
Posted on March 14, 2021
I was recently sitting on a small moss covered stone bridge over a small but ancient meandering river.Just sitting watching the water move around the river plants while the sunlight reflected in shards on its surface.
After a while of sitting doing ‘apparently’ nothing-I kind of sank into a different kind of stillness.
The volume of my mind was turned down or even off while the volume around me increased.This was an active state not a passive state .I was being submerged into the surrounding trees, the babbling noises of the river and the river itself.
The cornucopia of sights and smells had naturally induced this state – I had no intention for this as such it just …happened .Sinking into the welcoming quicksand of the moment the colours and sensations softened whilst also becoming ultra vivid as my perception of reality gently shifted around this place as I sank Ito the place itself.
This was a state of deep stillness which naturally occurred and left me feeling camouflaged within the environment. A reminder that I wasn’t ‘in nature’ but that I am nature.
It was within the soft focus of this deep relaxation that the Kingfisher appeared . A madness of colour and motion gliding through the air like a multi coloured streak of luminescent oil paint .
So vibrant and so fleeting. Gone in seconds, in a blink .I wondered if it imagined ? Was it real?
When it was gone only a fading imprint the colour remained in my vision – though the memory was lasting , luminous ,vibrant and very powerful . A deeply imprinted vivid colour recording of that moment .An intense colourful memory of complete immersion.
An invitation to remember we are part of this place we are so lucky to inhabit for a short, fleeting time.
An invitation remember that all this is fleeting and all know this is real .
©TheShamansHorse/Sean Ryan 2021
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Pre Beltane – Earth Odyssey
Posted on April 25, 2022
Last weekend I went on a walk around Avebury and the surrounding countryside to gather my thoughts and inspiration for the upcoming event at Avebury this Sunday on Beltane May the 1st .
It’s a light hearted gamble (whilst it also offered deep connection) and a little postcard /love letter from and to Avebury and the surrounding lands.
Beltane Rising
Posted on February 14, 2022
Im so happy to be holding space for this empowering day to celebrate the high fertile energies of Beltane on May the 1st at the Henge Shop in Avebury.
Bluebell Spirt
Posted on May 3, 2021
It’s still Beltane ! It’s more than just a day and probably not on the 1st of May anyway.
Its been a strange one this year but I’ve been out in the woods quite a lot.I love the energy of bluebells – the way they forma a carpet of colour all over the floor of the woodland and the wild energy they exude.This year ,I thought I’d try to capture it in this artwork.It’s seems a,most impossible to capture the feeling of this energy with a photograph.
There’s this kind of wild energy which presents itself at this time like a trigger for the sap to rise and Summer to start.
Bluebell feels like the blue touch paper for the fireworks of Summer.
TO INDIA WITH LOVE ..from ALBION
Posted on April 28, 2021
It’s been quite distressing over the past few days watching the dreadful developments evolve in India and it has been really occupying my thoughts.As I was feeling a little helpless I thought I would make an artwork as an act of meditative positive intention- a magical act of creative healing.
After my usual meditation and drum journey work I was minded to create an image of the Indian Goddess Kali.Over the past three years I have visited several powerful Kali shrines in India – the most powerful feeling (to me ) of which were in Kolkata.I was nervous of creating this image – choosing not to continue if the deity didn’t wish me to- so being mindful to stop the process if it didn’t ‘feel right’.I had several reservations – was I playing with fire with Kali ? Was I ‘appropriating’ or being dis-respectful ?I decided to trust the process and after all she would for sure let me know .
Rather than being warned off ,the opposite actually happened and I was drawn into the process really quickly and deeply but after a while something else intervened. Half way through making this artwork an ancient Celtic energy appeared and ‘wanted in’ – not in any way comparable to Kali but no he less here and present in energies the and influences efecting me right now.The energy of Boudicca or maybe even Andraste ( The ancient warrior queen of the Iceni worshipped by Boudicca and the ancient Iceni people)seemed to want to come through …
So here it is a mysterious deity or energy .. part Indian part Celtic which seems perfect when sending energy over to India form here.
May she bring victory over ‘the demons’.
May she bring resilience, energy and healing.
May she bring love to India from Albion.
Albion is said to be the oldest known name for the Island of Britain .
If you are interested in learning how I use sacred or shamanic drumming as part of my practice I will holding space on a weekend retreat in August where I will be sharing these techniques.
The link to this weekend and more information is here
Dream Goddess
Posted on April 13, 2021
Sometimes dreams just demand you paint them up or down.Who am I to dare to argue with this one.This mycelial Medusa is a dream goddess who really doesn’t care of the hairdressers have re-opened or not.She brings you adder medicine of fertile transformation.
Give in to her encouragement and powers and the kick-ass side of the divine feminine
SNOW HARE
Posted on April 12, 2021
Just been hand finishing and framing up my weather appropriate Snowy Hare print for someone and thought I would let him have a play with the other Hares in our front room before he is released and now…….he doesn’t want to leave ….It seems cruel but like the rest of us he has to face the world and get out there
!!!https://theshamanshorse.bigcartel.com/…/a3-hare-and-fox…
Seeing in the Dark
Posted on April 9, 2021
Last night I dreamt of crumbling walls and the futility of trying to keep them up.Let them fall – we don’t need them .Then I dreamt about seeing in the dark and how the unseen is wilder than you might imagine.
Within some animistic practices we say we can see better in the dark – I think this may be true.
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