Catherine Hyde Landscapes glimpsed... We have been representing Catherine's work at Seven Fables since we opened in 2002, during that time it has been an absolute delight and privilege to witness her work evolve and to see her creative wings unfurl to include the written word. Catherine Hyde Limited Edition Prints Printed using light-fast pigmented inks, on Epson archive quality velvet fine art paper, all prints are supplied be-spoke mounted & cello wrapped. Catherine's prints are available in two sizes, regular and large, do refer to the gallery below for full details. A selection are also framed, please enquire. Delivery available throughout the UK and overseas Bespoke Mounted Print Quick View Print - In Darkling Wood Price £115.00 Shipping info Add to Cart Bespoke Mounted Print Quick View Print - The Brightening Dawn Price £115.00 Shipping info Add to Cart Bespoke Mounted Print Quick View Print - Into the Velvet Darkness Price £115.00 Shipping info Add to Cart Bespoke Mounted Print Quick View Print - Falling Through Starlight Price £115.00 Shipping info Add to Cart Bespoke Mounted Print Quick View Print - Through the Darkness Price £115.00 Shipping info Add to Cart Bespoke Mounted Print Quick View Print - Under a Blanket of Stars Price £115.00 Shipping info Add to Cart Bespoke Mounted Print Quick View Print - Against the Night Price £115.00 Shipping info Add to Cart Bespoke Mounted Print Quick View Print - Ask The Bee Price £115.00 Shipping info Add to Cart Bespoke Mounted Print Quick View Print - The Nightjar's Call Price £115.00 Shipping info Add to Cart Bespoke Mounted Print Quick View Print - The Mistletoe Tree Price £115.00 Shipping info Add to Cart Bespoke Mounted Print Quick View Print - The Sleeping Earth Price £115.00 Shipping info Add to Cart Originals by Catherine Hyde Following Catherine's recent visit to Seven Fables we currently have a small selection of originals. Painted on Clapboard with acrylic all are framed and deliveries vailable throughout the UK and overseas - please do enquire if you have any queries or would like to view in person. Original Quick View Original - Where Badger Digs Price £1,200.00 Shipping info Add to Cart Original Quick View Original - Mothlight Price £750.00 Shipping info Add to Cart Original Quick View Original - Sundown Price £750.00 Shipping info Add to Cart Beautiful Books by Catherine Hyde Signed First Edition Quick View Book - Darkling - Catherine Hyde Price £15.00 Shipping info Add to Cart Signed Edition Quick View Book - The Bee and the Sun - Catherine Hyde Price £15.00 Shipping info Add to Cart

Rachel Bailey Rachel's work caught our eye as she too shares a love for the wild creatures that occupy that liminal divide between the natural world and those evasive magical realms... A practicing jeweller since 1993 it is only recently that she has been able to indulge in her own designs for this more ethereal range. The semi precious stones are an integral part of her inspiration suggesting landscapes that her birds and animals inhab it - all are ethically sourced from India. Each piece is unique and individually handmade in sterling silver and hallmarked in Sheffield. Current Availability Enjoy browsing the selection below, more designs are on display in the gallery, so if you do not see a piece you may have spotted when visiting please do enquire. All jewellery is posted via Royal Mail Special Delivery which costs £9.00 within the UK Delivery overseas sent tracked and charged at cost, please enquire. Pendant Quick View Moon Lit Escapade Price £280.00 Shipping info Pendant Quick View Dew Hopper Price £190.00 Shipping info Pendant Quick View Dreaming of Dusklight Price £585.00 Shipping info Pendant Quick View Woodland Moth Price £220.00 Shipping info Brooch Quick View Leaping Hare Price £140.00 Shipping info

Jackie Morris Seven Fables is the principal UK outlet representing internationally renowned illustrator & author Jackie Morris, here you will find an insight into her work and be able to view originals and prints that are currently available to purchase. . . Jackie Morris has over thirty years' experience writing and illustrating, and her books appeal to an incredibly broad age range. The success of The Lost Words, created in partnership with Robert Macfarlane has become quite a phenomenon, with successful campaigns nationwide to place a copy within every primary school across the UK, including Somerset and Devon. In 2019, The Lost Words was awarded the prestigious CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal, the only prize in the UK to solely reward outstanding illustration in a children's book. The Lost Spells saw the continuation of their successful collaboration and Book of Birds is awaited with much anticipation. Jackie is delighted to have recently been nominated for the IBBY 2024 Hans Christian Andersen Award - the highest international recognition given to creators of children’s books whose complete works have made an important, lasting contribution to children's literature. Seven Fables has worked closely with Jackie since 2013 and our customers have shared some magical moments with her including our 'Wild Swans Wing Walk' and more recently The Lost Spells event at Dunster Tithe Barn with both Jackie and Robert. Please note that not all of Jackie's work is permanently on display at Seven Fables. If there is a particular painting that you would like to view in person please call to make an appointment to visit The Fabled Room. You may book directly here , or call 01398 324457 to discuss your wish list! Enjoy browsing her dedicated portfolios and our on-line journal has some wonderful films and images from past events and current projects. Jackie Morris Originals There are three galleries that feature Jackie's originals. The button below will lead the way! View Originals Jackie Morris Prints High quality prints featuring Jackie's iconic images from The Lost Words and The Unwinding... View Prints Jackie Morris Books Here you will discover signed copies and exclusive editions to purchase for yourself or as a gift. . . View Books Occasionally life changes and collectors decide to part with their treasured paintings. We have a small selection of originals and prints by Jackie Morris that are seeking new homes... Pre-loved Jackie Morris Wild Folk - Tales From the Stones Seven Fables has been commissioned by Penguin Random House and Unbound to produce a number of films for Jackie over the years. Discover the inspiration for Wild Folk, the much anticipated collaboration from Tamsin Abbott and Jackie Morris. Due to be published in June 2025, Seven Fables will be hosting the launch event in the wilds of Exmoor - sign up to our newsletter to receive your invitation.

A Musical Christmas Procession... Throughout her career, Jackie Morris has been creating dreamlike images for the Help Musicians Christmas card, and this year the white bears take centre stage, dancing on the back of an elephant as they parade across a winter landscape. It has in recent years become part of the festive tradition, for Jackie to invite a musician to compose a short piece of music to accompany the artwork. This year she invited Molly Howell, a young musician living in Wales to respond to the colourful, serene winter procession. Molly has worked previously with Jackie, creating the haunting soundscape for Feather, Leaf, Bark & Stone and welcomed this new commission. Christopher and I were not expecting to make a film for the artwork this year as Jackie's time has been focused on completing The Book of Lost Birds, her head in paint, brush and feathers, and yet we unexpectedly found ourselves staying together at Northmoor House and never ones to miss a creative opportunity spent an afternoon at the piano... A visual delight... On returning home we spent a day by the fireside editing a short film to convey the spirit of this year's artwork, highlighting the colourful details that link the stories, the musicians and their companions across Jackie's imaginative winter realms. We hope you enjoy visiting their world for a brief, relaxing moment in time... If you are enchanted by this year's imagery you will be delighted to know that limited edition prints are available to order directly from Seven Fables, the original also. Delivery is available throughout the UK and overseas - please do enquire info@sevenfables.co.uk or view via the link below THE JACKIE MORRIS PRINT COLLECTION The Christmas cards are for sale exclusively from the Help Musicians website HELP MUSICIANS 'We love music and want a world where musicians thrive.' Help Musicians is a charity for professional musicians of all genres, both in work and in retirement. They offer support at times of crisis, but also at times of opportunity, giving people the help they need at the crucial stages that could make or break their career. Discover more by Molly Howell on Bandcamp... BANDCAMP: MOLLY HOWELL

...tell me the names of the sea' The story of a painting, a song of the sea and a film by Seven Fables For almost twenty years, if not more, Jackie Morris has been creating dreamlike images for the Help Musicians Christmas card, this year is the story of the Fox and Hare and Great White Bear, and the painting is accompanied by a haunting melody written and performed by Kerry Andrew - You Are Wolf . Jackie asked Christopher, and myself, if we would make a film to capture the beauty and vibrancy of her work, and highlight Kerry's music. We naturally said yes - Jackie is a joy to work with and having the luxury of a ready-made soundtrack was a gift, so while staying at Northmoor House , we set up a temporary studio in the scullery where the colour and gold shone in the October light. Before you continue reading, listening, watching, we suggest that you light a candle or two, make yourself comfortable, relax and enjoy... Fox and Hare and Great White Bear A story by Jackie Morris In every image there are as many stories as there are people who look. Each begins with a curiosity. Who is the woman in blue? Does the drummer summon the fish with the rhythm of her music? Does the boat follow the fish as they wander the world’s winds, or do the fish follow the boat, drawn by the music? Where are they going? What are they leaving? The fox and the hare and the great white bear had seen this before. On days like this when the sea was a palette of colours; green and slate green and silver and blue, paynes grey and smalt, and glass green. They knew how the fish would rise when colours sang in the water, and they knew how each fish pulled the snow into the sky with their great fan tails, searching for dreams, carried a sliver of the old moon in their eyes, keeping the moon safe until she grew in her power to fulness again. They knew that on days like this it would seem as if the whole world were made of music and this would be where answers could be found. For a year they had been walking, together over the white, footfall after footfall, through snow, in new moon and full moon, and each of the moons with its own name, its own story. She carried her question to the edge, to ask the fish for an answer. “What,” she asked, “would have the power to call all of the birds to make a bridge of their wings to stretch across the universe?” And the fish answered, as always, with a story. It was said that he was born to the song of the nightingales, and their thrilling notes were the first music he heard. And so, from his birth, he understood the language of birds. And if some are born rich and some are born poor there are those who understand the nature of true wealth does not lie in gold, but somewhere more precious. As a babe he would lie in his cradle as his mother worked, watch the light in the leaves dance patterns across his crib and listen to the language of birds. When she worked the fields he was strapped to her back and would watch the wild geese, an autumn arrow across the sky. In spring he thrilled to the voices of oriels. And as he grew he began to help his mother, clearing the fields of stones, bending to plant rice, standing to watch the cranes dance to their own music, in the turning world. His father was often away, caring for sheep on the mountain pastures, but one day, home for a while, he took down a painted box from a high shelf. In the box, wrapped in golden silk, an intricately carved bamboo flute. He handed it to his son, who admired the object, intrigued, then gave it back to his father. And when his father raised the instrument to his lips and played the first note the boy knew he could never be a farmer. His life belonged to the flute, to music. He learned how to make his own instrument. He learned to play. Everywhere he went he carried the flute, every spare moment he practiced. And he made new flutes, from bamboo, from wood, from the bones of a swan. And with every new making the sound became richer, wilder, deeper. Now when he played the nightingales would come to listen, thread their music through his, thrilling and filling the starlight hours. When he went with his father to watch over the sheep it was said the wolves would gather to listen. There was a wild haunting ache to the young man’s music, which left within it space for the wild song of the world to enter, the voices of others, the river, the wind, the colours of butterflies and moths, wild flowers and always birdsong. It was said that his music could heal even the most broken of hearts or minds. People would gather to hear him play and it wasn’t long before musicians made pilgrimage to his door to request that he make them a flute. And so he began to make flutes for others. He would look at the person, listen closely to their colours, and know exactly how to make the best instrument to fit them perfectly. His fame spread, tales of a shepherd boy troubadour. By now he was a young man, restless in the world, spending most of his time in the mountains, charming the wolves, making laments powerful enough that the moon would stop in her tracks to listen. And this was how he came to the attention of the Emperor. The Emperor sent a summons. He wanted the boy to come and play to his daughter, struck down by a melancholy so deep she hardly ate, spending her days locked in a tall tower, refusing food, sleeping and sighing and wasting away. He offered wealth. The boy thanked him, but said he could not leave the mountains. He did not need money. The Emperor sent again, this time a command. The boy said he could not come as he was learning from the birds. The Emperor was angry. But he was also measured. He knew that a songbird in a cage does not sing as sweet as one who flies free. He commissioned a portrait of his beloved child, and sent this to the young man. The boy left the mountains, travelled over the sea, learned the music of waves, came to the Emperor’s door. Every night for seven nights he sat at the foot of the princess’ tower and played. In moonlight and starlight, as shooting stars fell he played. As the rain added a rhythm to his music he played. As the lights of the aurora danced in the sky, he played. Night birds came and added a chorus and the wind threaded through the leaves of the forest. His music became a current that was one with the river and on the seventh night the princess rose from her bed and went to the window. Notes from the flute lifted skyward, a simple, dark love song, out from the mind of the boy and into her heart. Did she fall in love from the first note that entered her dreaming mind? Probably. Was the Emperor pleased to witness the revival of his child? Yes. But....... she was betrothed to the King in the North, a treaty of great trade and power. And if that king was 60 years old, well, such was the ways of power. And if now she had fallen in love with this peasant musician, well, that had not been a part of his plan. On the eighth night there was silence. The boy had been exiled. Far away to the other side of the universe, where his music could never again reach the ears of the princess. But the Emperor, who understood wealth and the power of politics, failed to comprehend the power of music and wild magic. Far away the boy began to play. Each note summoned a bird. Each bird spread wide their wings, all the colours of a rainbow of feathers, blackbird and starling, thrush and oriel, eagle and wren, flamingo and crane, nightingale and owl, sparrow and finch, turtle dove and collared dove, gannet and heron, parrot and plover and curlew and pintail, songbird and hawk, sea bird and river bird, hummingbird and toucan. All the birds of the air sent someone, and together they made a bridge of their wings that spanned the universe, from the boy to the tower. On one side he began to walk, even as she stepped out of her window onto the wings of the dancing cranes. One wing, one step at a time, and still he played, lending the wings of the birds strength through his music, until they met at the apex of the arch, where they danced to the music of the spheres. The woman in blue thought for a while. She could hear, distant, yet clear, the music of a flute threading through the waves. She gathered the threads of the answer, thanked the fish, and began a new journey. In every story there are as many images as people who have ears to listen and hearts to hold it. If you are captivated by the story, song and imagery you may be delighted to know that limited edition prints are available to order directly from Seven Fables - the originals have recently made their swift fluid flight to an admirer and collector of Jackie's work in America. However, the prints that you see being delicately hand finished by Jackie with 'shell gold' in the film are available, marked as artist proof, AP, and signed. Delivery is available throughout the UK and overseas - please do enquire info@sevenfables.co.uk or view via the link below THE JACKIE MORRIS PRINT COLLECTION The Christmas cards are for sale exclusively from the Help Musicians website HELP MUSICIANS 'We love music and want a world where musicians thrive.' Help Musicians is a charity for professional musicians of all genres, both in work and in retirement. They offer support at times of crisis, but also at times of opportunity, giving people the help they need at the crucial stages that could make or break their career. Kerry Andrew’s latest album was published on the 3rd of November and was funded in part by Help Musicians. Entitled 'hare // hunter // moth // ghost' it comprises eleven tracks about transformation, populated by queer ghosts and magicians, storm kelpies, shapeshifting hares and foxes, pansexual kings, iconic stag-men and vengeful wolf-girls. It features lyrics by Robert Macfarlane, guest vocals from Sam Lee a nd Ben See, with words by two wonderful writers, Nick Hayes and Kerri ní Dochartaigh. To discover more and purchase the album do head over to Bandcamp. BANDCAMP: KERRY ANDREW - YOU ARE WOLF

Last week we ran away, it was quite unplanned and not that far, for Jackie Morris came to play. We had the most wonderful, creative few days together, walking, talking, sharing tales by the fire and listening to the stags bellow as the leaf colour changed.   We stayed at a favourite place, Northmoor House , where the scullery became a dark room for playing with cyanotype, the piano a backdrop for a short film for this year's Help Musician's Christmas card, which is now in the editing stages. Northmoor has the most wonderful atmosphere, I love its long corridors, the collection of colourful carpet runners that invite you to explore, each time we visit another secret reveals itself. The textured paintwork and eclectic collection of ornaments and paintings make it feel loved & lived in. The house invites you to feel relaxed about how you use the space, it's not overly precious or crudely and unsympathetically modernised with wet rooms and hot tubs - its deep Victorian bathtubs are heaven. It is a space that inspires creativity, and I know that we are not alone as many artists and writers stay each year. A recent visitor to Seven Fables kindly gifted Christopher the chemicals to make Cyanotype - Northmoor provided the perfect space and room to play. Jan Jan went off in search of a key, and found a beauty that belonged to the log store, which in turn inspired Davina to play with keys and cats, while Jackie created paper cut outs of her distinctive doves... We took some wonderful walks along Danes Brook and to Burridge Woods leaving a labyrinth or two for others to find... Others too had been playing with stones... Amid the play we also we also did a little filming, but then we try to make life and work, a mixture of tales, art, play ... The film for Where the White Bears Dance will be released shortly so do look out for it this coming winter. We look forward to returning to Northmoor House next summer with the Wild Folk family.