4th April

A Small Bunny Fantasy

I started this piece by recycling some strips of a previous picture that really didn't work for me, and it kind of evolved as I went along. I once attended a workshop where we were asked what kind of animal we would be that expressed who we were, and this great hulking, muscle-y bloke declared he would be a fluffy rabbit. I have never seen rabbits in the same light since! Anyhow, we have rabbits and plum blossom, and an Alice-ish person, all in honour of it being Easter Sunday, and despite our autumn-y surroundings I feel it is an appropriate wee fantasy for my inner child - she deserves a little outing today!

1st April

Easter is Coming

Bunnies are everywhere running up to Easter, shop assistants are wearing pink and blue fluffy ears, chocolate and brightly coloured foil on the shelves. Here it is autumn and kind of 'wrong' for all the new life springing out of the cold bare earth symbolism, but we do have rabbits! Not that the farmers are happy about it, but I have all those Peter Rabbit stories, and Watership Downs, and The Little Grey Rabbit series that occupy my 'rabbit spaces' in my imagination. And The Velveteen Rabbit. So here are three furry bunnies in a grassy rabbit paradise, not a predator in sight, and thinking only of chocolate to come.