Francesca Forrest talks with artist Adam Oehlers about his work in Cinderella Jump Rope Rhymes and more. Francesca: You’ve done a fabulous job capturing the spirit of our macabre jump rope rhymes. Can you say a little bit about your mindset as you were creating each painting? Did you see each rhyme as part of the continuing adventure
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It’s official, salt is sexy! In more than one tradition around the world, salt is used to purify enclosures, or home dwellings. Along with herbs, or turmeric, sea salt is said to remove negative charges from the atmosphere. Salt is an agent of purification, a very housewifely thing to keep on hand. But like love, it possesses
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Catherine Rémy: Where myth and landscape meet by Erzebet YellowBoy & Catherine Rémy The cover art for the 14^th issue of Scheherezade’s Bequest was provided by Catherine Rémy, a visual artist who draws inspiration from landscape and myth. Her work has been exhibited at the Chatham Arts Centre, Covent Garden’s Jubillee Centre, the Medway Arts Centre, the
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Kirsty Greenwood, the artist whose “Fighting Faeries” was featured on the cover of Scheherezade’s Bequest 13, has a talent for expressing the unworldly and transient nature of her subject. Describing herself as “a quixotic painter, illustrator, sculptor and seamstress”, she engages with paint and pencil, with wood and fabric, and with her own dreaming self to
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The Silence of Trees By Valya Dudycz Lupescu, 2010 Reviewed by Donna Quattrone “I eagerly went onto the unknown, looking for magic, for mystery, for adventure. But sometimes magic finds you. Sometimes it comes in the least likely of forms: in a small black river rock, a deck of hand-​​​​painted cards, a sprig of purple herb, or an
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Let England Shake By PJ Harvey, 2011 Reviewed by Tanya B. Avakian The minstrel boy to the war is gone In the ranks of death you will find him, His father’s sword he has girded on And his wild harp slung behind him. “Land of song,” said the warrior bard, “Though all the world betray thee,
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By Lyz Reblin During my nine-​​​​month journey to my destination I chose to research the planet before encountering its inhabitants. In the spaceship’s library, I found a text titled “The Classic Fairy Tales” edited by a human named Maria Tatar. The tome seemed to be a misnomer, for no fairies were to be found within its pages. Instead, I found a collection of
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By Elizabeth Hopkinson Almost everyone knows the familiar fairy tale ending: the prince marries the princess and they live happily ever after. But does this simple conclusion embody all that fairy tales have to tell us about human sexuality? By no means! “Intentionally or not, (fairy tales) have been used to enforce what has been termed
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By Sophie Masson Aberfoyle, Perthshire, Scotland It is a pretty track from the manse to the hill. Early spring, and the trees are beginning to put out new young leaves. Subtle colour permeates the landscape; the pale purple of growing tips, the russet of lingering winter, the film of green beginning to thicken, the darkness of the
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Kate Crackernuts: The Hen-​​​​Wife and her Cauldron of Wisdom by Colleen Szabo This tale is a wisdom tale featuring the old symbol of creativity and wisdom, the nut. We still use the term “nut” to denote the head, one location commonly assigned for wisdom; in fact, nuts are sort of like brains in a skull (shell). I suppose in
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