Duirwaigh

The Last Chance Sale

Dear Friends of Duirwaigh,

AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! Duirwaigh Gallery's fantasy paintings gallery is officially CLOSING. The majority of paintings featured on our website are no longer available.

From May 5th - May 15th, Duirwaigh will host "The Last Chance" sale here on the Duirwaigh blog. Each day we'll post a selection of original paintings--many from our own private collection that have never previously been offered for sale. Paintings will have special pricing and be sold on a first-come, first-served basis. The stunningly beautiful paintings of Kinuko Craft will kick-start our event on May 5th. (Just look below!)

Also, many of our prints and cards are SELLING OUT. If there are any posters, lithographs or prints you've been waiting to purchase, now would be the time! Prints by Ian Daniels, Marc Potts, Kinuko Craft, Linda Ravenscroft, Tom Canty, Brian Froud and Terri Windling will no longer be available on our new website. GET THEM NOW BEFORE THEY ARE GONE FOREVER!!!

Our brand-spanking new Duirwaigh Studios website will premiere on June 1, 2009 and will feature new never-seen-before artwork.

Kinuko Craft Original Paintings in our Last Chance Sale:

"The Butterfly Fairy" Archival suede matting, gold filet and frame. $4700

Detail: 

"Art Nouveau Fairy" acrylic on board. Overall dimensions 11" x 17" $5750

Marvin Manyshaped, oil on board, unframed, 20"x25", for a novel by the same name. $12,400

Detail:

"Midsummer Night's Dream" cover for Simon and Schuster books. Oil on board. Archival matting and frame. Overall framed measurement: 24"x26". $28,000.00

"The Faeries Ball" oil on board. Original illustration from Tom Thumb, framed it measures 25"x31". Archival matting and frame. $38,000.00

 

Detail:

"Carmen" oil on board. Archival framing. Painted for the Dallas Opera. Framed measurements are 31"x36". $38,000.00

"Knight" oil on board. Unframed. Painted for Time Life's Fantasy book series. $4200

Detail:

Ozma of Oz. Oil on board. Archival matting and framing. Overall measurement with frame is 22"x24". $24,000.00

 

Detail:

Sleeping Beauty, oil on board. Unframed, 16"x20" $7400

BUY ONE GET ONE!

Well, folks, we're close! Sooooooo close to premiering our new Duirwaigh website. As mentioned in previous posts, we're shifting focus to Duirwaigh as a STUDIO: an out-of-this-world-while-still-in-this-world inspiration!

Here's your official sneak peek!

To make room for the new, we're clearing out many of our previous publications. LET ME MAKE THIS PERFECTLY CLEAR! The majority of our prints and cards are being discontinued. Once they're gone, they're gone. We'll not be reprinting, and most of our prints are exclusive to us, meaning they'll not be available anywhere ever again. OK, maybe on ebay once in a while! But we're the publisher and once the prints and cards have sold out, they're gone for good.

So now's a great time to purchase, for not only are they going...going...gone!, but they're also available for the next month at Duriwaigh Deal-o-Rama prices!

UNTIL MAY 15TH ALL OUR PRINTS, CARDS AND CALENDARS ARE BUY ONE GET ONE FREE!*

This includes Brian Froud, Linda Ravenscroft, Christophe Vacher, Ian Daniels, Matt Stewart, Marc Potts and many of your favorite artists. Call to order, as our shopping card is ancient and will not accept discount codes.

Our gallery: 678-354-1147

*does not include prints on canvas, signed or limited edition pieces.

A New Portal

Greetings from the land beyond the Duir!

First and foremost, happy new year! We are grateful for so many things here, at the turning point between 2008 and 2009! Good health, harmony with family and friends, the hope that's penetrating our nation and the world with a new leader coming to the helm, and you--our beloved community.

I"m sure you've noticed all the changes in the world recently. While some things are on the decline--other things are on the rise. Like creativity and consciousness! Like magical thinking and hopeful expectations! Like dreaming and storytelling and imagining. All one needs to do is spend 30 minutes on google to notice the huge surge of myth and enchantment sweeping through the world. Over the past few years, the gargantuan success of magical books such as Harry Potter and mythic films like Lord of the Rings, as well as the resurgence of interest in The Mythic Journey through music, television and interactive media points to a reawakening of enchantment and a new consciousness that makes room not only for flights of fancy, but for everyday myth-making. Finally, at least to some degree, magic gets a seat next to science.

Some of you may already be aware that The Endicott Studio's online magazine "Journal of Mythic Arts" (JoMA) has ceased production. They began their endevor to share mythic art with the world in the late 1990's, as did Duirwaigh. Today, however, there is such a wealth information, art and programs available at the touch of a finger, our presence online has become merely a shadow cast by a larger light. Like with JoMA, it is time for us to reinvent or retire.

We've chosen reinvention.

To that end, we dedicated the majority of 2008 to a new vision--one that takes our focus out of the Celtic forest and into the far corners of both inner and outer worlds. The Duirwaigh--which has stood for the giant oak threshold to magic, found in the mythic Celtic wood, has swollen, expanded, exploded. Tiny pieces of the duir are found all over the world, in stories from every country, in traditions of cultures both alive, dreamed and remembered. And to these we want to tip our hat as we travel by on a magic carpet ride collecting proof and souvenirs of Wonder's existence.

But the duir we now turn our attention to is the primary Duir. The main Duir. And that Duir, my dear friends, resides in one place alone. It is on the human heart and is the gateway to the soul, the place where Impossible Things Happen Every Day. And to honor that Duir, we at Duirwaigh now turn our full attention to the art of openness. Through sharing our creativity, inspirations and imagination with you, we intend Duirwaigh to be a portal, one you can enter to stir your own creative fires.

We are leaving the Celtic forest and its faeries, imps and goblins to those who do it best (though--believe me--plenty of faeries and mermaids have already packed their bags, thoroughly intent on following us to new ground!) and are now turning our attention to what we do best: inspiration!

A whole new website will appear in spring of 2009 and with it, a new focus: music, films, books and art created by the Duirwaigh founders Angi and Silas. We can't divulge all the secrets right now, but if you love the spirit of our films and online projects, our new threshold should intrigue and delight.

Hang onto your hats. It's going to be a magic carpet ride through the realms of imagination. A new portal opens spring 2009 and with it, worlds within worlds of wonders. (Click the icon to the right to enjoy Silas's new original composition and see the film "The Magic Carpet Ride.")

Moving Alice

Our moving sale begins TODAY! The schedule is as follows:

October 26 - All Things Alice
October 27 - Original Paintings & Sculpture
October 28 - Prints
October 29 - Disney Stuff
October 30 - Everything Else
October 31 - We reserve this day for TRICKS and TREATS!

This means, of course, that Alice will be wandering through the Wonderland of ebay this evening. Here's a few teasers for what's to come this evening...

And if you're a fan of Alice, don't forget our Wonderland original art exhibit premieres tomorrow on www.DuirwaighGallery.com!

The Moving Sale REDUX

Part Two in an Ever-Expanding Story...

Our Moving Sale will launch on ebay this Sunday October 26th. To tease and titillate we are including a few tidbits here, for your viewing pleasure!

The countdown is ON!

Go Rabbit Go!

Another juicy tidbit from our upcoming Wonderland exhibition. This one from Nancy Wiley. If you're not familiar with Nancy's work, check out her website. She's a modern-day renaissance woman and one of our all-time favorite artists. Her style is unique and her technique flawless. Don't take my word for it, just put her name into Amazon.com and check out her book. No whimsical bookshelf is complete without it.

Oh! And for those of you who love Alice, her next project is an Alice in Wonderland book. To die!!!

Alice's Circus

What can I say? I'm speechless.

This just in from Gail Lackey, a dark queen who's rallied the ghostly forces to capture what happened after Alice conked her head and fell down the rabbit hole.

*Clapping hands!*

 

Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve! Introducing Silver Metal Mantras~

Introducing Silver Metal Mantras! Angi's new Duir-inspired line of jewelry. All pieces are HAND CRAFTED in the USA --not mass produced in China, so you are getting a true original, each created individually by a silversmith. Sterling silver and 14K gold are the only metals used.

Angi describes the inspiration:
I love words, especially those with spirit, essence. I long ago gave up on the idea of tatoos, for if I started with my favorite quotes I'd have run of skin by puberty. So I started wearing inscribed jewelry and laughingly referred to them as "my silver tatoos"--they don't age,  fade, wrinkle or require needle application. And if one reminds you of an old flame it's removable without surgery. When people started asking me where I got them I passed out business cards of the artist, but soon I was fielding requests for quotes from my writing and films. So finally, the two inspirations meet. On the body.

I named them Silver Metal Mantras for the meaning of each word:

Metal - met·al:
1.    such a substance in its pure state
2.    the state of being set in type
3.    basic character; mettle.
4.    also, mettle: courage and fortitude

Mantra - man·tra:
1.    a word or formula, as from the Veda, chanted or sung as a prayer
2.    sacred verbal formula repeated in meditation or incantation such as an invocation of a god, a magic spell, or a syllable or portion of scripture containing mystical potentialities.

In a world where current events, politics and news-on-the-street can distract you from your true essence, leading the mind to forgetfulness and the heart to despair, it's more important than ever to remember who you are! Like the Tibetan Prayer Wheels which allow the wearer to be physically mindful of their prayers, sending them out into the world with a spin of the wheel, Silver Metal Mantras allow each wearer to touch their truth and remember their essence. The old adage is true: what we think on grows and Silver Metal Mantras allow us to think more often on what we know to be true. They are touchstones, of meditation, encouraging each of us to remember who we are.

It requires mettle to invoke magical thinking in such times. Keep your prayers visible, your magic touch-able.Wear your heart on your sleeve! With Silver Metal Mantras.

~The Introductory Line~

NECKLACES~

All sterling silver, on a 16" inch chain.

Fencepost style is $65 and available with the following inscriptions:

Open the Duir   

Believing is Seeing 

 

Hammered Circle Necklace is $75 and available with the following inscriptions:

Always Settle for More 

Dream Wide Awake

   

Life Book Necklace is $145 and is available in the following inscriptions:

Once Upon a Time is Really Here and Now 

I Am a Fairytale in the Making

Duir Necklace is Sterling Silver with 14K Doorknob. $75

BANGLE BRACELETS
Sterling Silver and stackable! Available with single side engraving or double sided.

Single side bangles are $69 and are available with the following inscriptions:
(not all are pictured)

Never let reality get in the way of your dreams   

Make your life come true -  find the fairy tale in you   

Thoughts become things - choose glorious ones

I am the Duirwaigh to all possibility - a dance on the field of dreams

 

Double side bangles are $79 and are available with the following inscriptions:
(not all are pictured)

Knock at the Duir bangle
Side 1:    Leap - Soar - Explore - Remember your dreams  and unseen things 
Side 2:  Sing with rapture -  Dance like a dervish -  And when imagination knocks, open the duir...   

Impossible Things bangle
Side 1: Think big! Dream bigger! Live biggest!    
Side 2:  Impossible things happen every day

Legend bangle
Side 1: Living my legend
Side 2: Because once upon a time is really here and now

More bangle
Side 1: Always settle for more
Side 2: More truth - More grace -  More laughter - More presence - More wings where there were wounds

Bohemian bangle
Side 1: I am a bohemian rhapsody
Side 2: I sing for truth, beauty, freedom, but above all, love

Amen bangle
Side 1:  Amen abracadabra amen
Side 2:  I am a breathing miracle - a walking, talking practical magic

The entire line will debut on the Duirwaigh website in mid November. Quantities are limited for Christmas delivery. Inquire here. 
 

The Wonderland Within

Marilyn Radzat has outdone herself, which can be hard to do, methinks, because her work is sensational. How do you top sensational? Ask Tim Burton and Marilyn Radzat, for they both just get better and better.  I couldn't keep this guy under wraps until the show. He's just too delicious. He's a GOURD for goshsakes!! My oh my the things you can do with vegetation! His upper body is removable, like a clever Wonderland candy jar, and inside a surprise! Alice stands in the center of the rabbit hole! There's a little Mad Hatter to accompany her. The piece is entitled "The Wonderland Within" and if you'd like to take a closer look before the show, Marilyn's created a lovely slide show located here. Watch and Wonder!

Paulina's Pixies head to Wonderland

I dunno 'bout you, but these guys just delight me. Paulina Cassidy will have several watercolors and pen/ink drawings in our Wonderland show. She's got such a unique style, that Paulina. Half Tenniel, half Tim Burton, entirely and distinctly Paulina. We enjoy her work so much we collaborated on a 2009 calendar of her pixie folk. You can find it on our website.

Stay tuned for more Wonderland goodness!