Folktale Week 2024

7 illustrations over 7 days from 7 prompts.

I lost a dear friend on April 6th. When I looked at this years prompts, the words spoke to me about loss and about grief and about the passage of time. So this series of illustrations are my interpretation of those experiences.

I haven’t over tweaked or over edited.

Sometimes you just have to go with what comes out of you.

When my friend died, Mark said that she was the best of all of us. And she really was.

FOLKTALE WEEK
18th - 24th Nov 2024 — FOLKTALE WEEK 18th - 24th Nov 2024

MIST
The mist came down the day you left. — MIST The mist came down the day you left.

GATE
And I can't get to you. — GATE And I can't get to you.

BLIGHT
It is everywhere and all around. — BLIGHT It is everywhere and all around.

TRAIL
In my dreams I find you and I'm so happy again. We fly like birds. We are free of it.. — TRAIL In my dreams I find you and I'm so happy again. We fly like birds. We are free of it..

DEPTH
But when I wake I'm sinking, suffocating at the bottom of the ocean. — DEPTH But when I wake I'm sinking, suffocating at the bottom of the ocean.

BONES
It's cold and dark and it hurts in my bones. This grief. This terrible sadness. — BONES It's cold and dark and it hurts in my bones. This grief. This terrible sadness.

BLOSSOM 
But time passes. There are more days now when the mist clears. The sun comes out. And on those days. You are everywhere and all around. — BLOSSOM  But time passes. There are more days now when the mist clears. The sun comes out. And on those days. You are everywhere and all around.