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Artist Commentary: This is my first-ever calendar designed for all lovers of childhood tales. Open its pages to enter enchanted lands, encounter talking trees and animals, and embark on noble quests. Within the calendar, you will discover full colour painting and sketch images (fauns, lions, badgers, unicorns, centaurs, valiant mice) from my original Narnia-inspired galleries.

This calendar marks moon phases, solstices and equinoxes, and international holidays. It also includes a 17 inch tall centerfold print of After the Storm.

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“The City of Kings”

Oil on canvas, 13″x21″ wide.

Artist Commentary: Before dawn on Saturday I rode the Pelennor Fields and arrived at the Great Gate guarding the Tower of the Setting Sun. There I passed through the Othram and entered the lowest level of this once great city. Forlorn, she seemed now, and desolate; her people, still proud, were nonetheless few, and they were wary of ill news and of strangers.

I led Brego to the southeastern gate and to the city’s second level. Here the golden light of dawn began to break over the distant peaks of the Ephel Dúath, and as we made our way toward the third level gate, I paused, gave Brego some hay, and set up my easel. The halls and columns of the city bloomed roseate in the new morning light, and they soared above us to impossible heights. The cobbled streets were wet with the morning dew, and glinted in mist-laden air. Despite the evil of these times, I thought, one can still find hope and faith in such beauty.

While I plied my paints, I perceived the sound of hooves upon the cobbles, and soon a great silver stallion appeared. He bore upon his bare back a grey-cloaked figure, who clutched before him what I took to be a curly-headed child. The stallion galloped past us like the wind, and Brego whinnied a greeting. But even as he did so, the horse and riders were gone, flying toward the northeastern gate. I knew not what omen might be borne by these travellers on their mighty steed, but in these days, I feared theirs could not be glad tidings for the brave souls in this City of Kings.

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“Bucklebury”

Oil on canvas, 13″x21″ wide.

Artist Commentary: On Saturday, I hiked the hills of Bucklebury, near Brandy Hall. The midsummer air was clear and cool after the rains, and legions of wildflowers sprang in gilt splendour from the fragrant loam.

Atop a high ridge south of the Hall, I stopped to breathe in perfumed air and to paint. Two hobbit children gathered roses near the front steps of their smial, and in the distance, the meandering Baranduin wandered away toward the south, its confluence with the Withywindle lost in the blue haze of distance, and of time.

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Many Meetings”
Oil on canvas, 21″x13″ wide.

Artist Commentary: I spent Saturday above the gorge of Bruinen, along the western slopes of Karningul. The purple peaks of the Misty Mountains loomed in the late morning, and the soft light of autumn filtered crystalline through turquoise skies. I set up my easel on the curved path, beside ivy-strewn balusters, and sought to capture the rich cadmium golds and reds of the trees below.

While I worked, two halflings approached from the Last Homely House: one young, cloaked, and raven-haired, and the other older, sporting a red velvet coat and steadying himself with his ebony cane. They barely noticed me as they passed by, so deep were they in conversation about their home in the far flung lands westward.

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“Boromir Fallen”
Oil on canvas, 13″x21″ wide.

Artist Commentary: Saturday at dawn I hiked the western shores of Nen Hithoel, wending my way southward toward the triple peaks that crown the falls of Rauros. Upon the green sward of Parth Galen, I paused to admire Tol Brandir’s hewn heights, when suddenly a huntsman’s horn sounded from the forest behind me. Urgent came that call, and I dropped my gear and sprang up the sylvan slopes of Amon Hen to render what aid I might.

The winding of the horn ceased, but I ran on, coming at last upon a glade littered with the lifeless bodies of orcs. But propped against a tree, on the edge of the clearing, I descried the huntsman, motionless, seated on the ground with broken sword still clasped in his mighty hand. He was pierced with many arrows, and beside him knelt a cloaked companion. I stood in silence before these two great men: the one having been released from all suffering; the other with head bowed in sorrow and hands clasped before him in the still, golden light of morning.

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“The House of Beorn”
Oil on canvas, 13″x21″ wide.

Artist Commentary:I spent Saturday east of Anduin, beneath the eaves of Greenwood the Great. I came upon a thorny hedge and knew it for the bounds of Beorn’s realm. And as I passed through the wooden gate, I noticed stormy skies in the west, and calamitous clouds rising. Quickly, with golden afternoon light leaping across the lawn, I primed my palette and, heavens heaving above me, sketched the skin-changer’s home in cadmiums and cobalt.

As I painted, I was startled by the sight of a tall old man and a halfling coming through the gate; they gave me greetings and passed me by, proceeding along the lane and through the ripening corn. The Mage pointed out the distant hall to the pensive Hobbit, then they both vanished among the billowing gilded tassles.

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“Glorfindel”
Oil on canvas, 13″x21″ wide.

Artist Commentary:I spent an unsettled Saturday traveling the Great East Road, among the wild and tangled woods that climb ever upward toward the Misty Mountains. Halting Brego in the Trollshaws, many leagues west of Bruinen, I spied a prospect opening upon the northern marches; here I beheld a glimmering lake on which played sunbeams that smote the moody scape. And while clouds churned and thunders threatened, I hastened to set up my easel and sketch the scene.

But just as storms most threatened, I perceived a light in the west and heard the thunder of horse’s hooves upon the road. I sought shelter, but none was to be had. Yet, just as I feared the worst, one of the Fair Folk galloped into view on a great white steed. Tall, he was, yet fell, with power in his hand, and he merely nodded as he fled yet eastward on some grave errand. But in his passing, the gloom was vanquished. Golden light poured upon the road and pursued him; and in his wake I perceived a chiming of bells and a quickening of the air, as if all of these wild realms had been cleansed by his passing.

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Reciting the Signs”
Oil on canvas, 13″x21″ wide.

Artist Commentary: Saturday morning I awoke to find the walls of my bedroom vanished, replaced with roseate clouds and golden gossamer summer breezes. I sat up, flung away sheets and stepped into a crystalline dawn. Strolling through lush woodlands, I soon found myself at the brink of cliffs that felt as though they stood on the edge of forever. I breathed amethyst air, and in time a maiden and a lion came to the cliff’s edge. But I felt fearful that my presence might disturb them, so I turned and strode away, intent on exploring the glorious land that lay to the East….

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“On Woodland Trails”
Oil on canvas, 13″x21″ wide.

Artist Commentary:I spent Saturday in the Green Hill Country, near Wood Hall. Day dawned drab and dull, with high clouds and mists abounding. But skies soon brightened, and I hiked the hills and pitched my palette at forest’s edge. At teatime, I heard voices, and was joined on the ridge by a halfling and one of the Big Folk. They tarried, and the doughty doyen perched on the trunk of a felled oak tree and blew smoke rings across the wooded valley below us. After an hour, the companions continued on their way, fading off into the folds of the hazy afternoon hills while I my pigments plied.

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Oil on canvas, 13″x21″ wide.

Artist Commentary: I spent Saturday night north of the Great River. I camped the cliffs over-towering the river mouth and the crystalline palace by the sea. Near midnight, I awoke to a spectacle of silver: the full moon sailed the celestial veil, while tides of fog arose from eastern seas. I set up my easel, but soon saw, rising from the silence of the castle, an enormous owl. It swept silently past my outpost, and on its back I descried a young girl with cloak billowing in the chill night air; the fleet companions swiftly vanished into the murk of the inland woods.

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Out of Imladris”
Oil on canvas, 13″x21″ wide.

Artist Commentary:I awoke Saturday in the crisp predawn hours and at first knew not where I lay. But morning’s chill reminded me; I had vowed to paint the Imladris pass at daybreak, and so had camped in the high places that hem the blessed vale. I threw back my cloak and beheld the stars fading in the east; then, with numbed hands, I prepared palette and canvas. The first roseate rays were rising above the peaks when up from the valley rode two pilgrims on the path: a tall old man with a cloak and pointed grey hat mounted on a great white steed, and beside him, what appeared to be a tow-headed youth riding a pony. They greeted me heartily as they passed, the glory of dawn now rendering all of the mists of the new spring day in swirls of cobalt, violet, and gold.

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“Marshwiggle”
Oil on canvas, 13″x21″ wide.

Artist Commentary: I spent Saturday in the tidal marshes, south of the river. I rafted along the waterways in late afternoon under an immense sky, and anchored in a peaceful spot near a lone wigwam. Setting up my easel, I painted the pocked purple clouds that peppered the heavens. Then, just before sunset, a Marsh-dweller emerged from the wigwam to angle for eels. Violet skies blended with cadmium reds, and the muddy greens of spartina and needlerush faded as the sun touched the distant horizon. Clapper rails rang out, and the peace of eventide crept upon all of the wetland prairies.

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“Amon Sûl”
Oil on canvas, 13″x21″ wide.

Artist Commentary:I spent Saturday among the Weather Hills, east of Bree. Autumnal leaves lingered in the wild, and I hiked the hills seeking for Amon Sûl. In mid-morning I mounted a hillock and beheld the blanched ruins in crystalline morning light. I set up my easel and began to paint. Ere long, a rustling sounded from the tall grass behind me, and a ranger and a Hobbit appeared. They stood before me, surveying the remains of the watchtower, and then descended the hill to join their companions. I watched them all continue on their way, and a chill of foreboding came to me, despite the warmth of the sun and the aching beauty of the wild heaths.

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“Glenstorm’s Doughty Son”
Oil on canvas, 13″x21″ wide.

Artist Commentary: I Just returned from the western wilds, and Lo had wine ready for her tired artist returning from such a very long journey. Tells the tale that dawn broke high over the canopy of the wooded glen I sought. I paused, and the prayers of morning were marred only by what I took to be distant thunder. But, it was not so; the quaking of the earth betokened the coming of one I had always hoped to glimpse, but whom I had never thought to behold…the doughty son of the Centaur.

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The Grey Pilgrim”
Oil on canvas, 21″x13″ wide.

Artist Commentary: I spent Saturday with Mithrandir walking the foothills of the Misty Mountains. The light was golden and it glowed on glade and glen, field and forest. We stopped to rest along the roadside and watched the sky turn from cerulean to violet as evening set in.

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