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Stones, Trees and Churches

Posted By James On 02/10/2009 @ 09:40 am In me & my work | 1 Comment

I seem to be spending a fairly equal time exploring ancient sites, old churches, hills and woods recently.

With all my stonehenge related work, a bit of family history digging, and a continuing interest in the links between christianity and our ancient British spiritual heritage, its a web of links between landscape, ritual, spirituality and belief, that is a source of rich pickings for me as an artist.

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The carved figure at the bottom is from the font at a church in Winterbourne Monkton, nr Avebury - more images and a discussion of its origins at

[1] www.sheelanagig.org/SheelaWinterbourneMonkton.htm


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