John Slavin Art

Rabbit's Blood

To the extreme right of the landscape at the horizon is shown the king’s palace. Left and diagonally below is the huntsman’s black horse in a forest clearing. The huntsman sits green clad at the root of the foreground, great oak tree.
Centre to the painting the old hunchback, holding aloft a dead rabbit, bloodies the huntsman’s sword. The newborn hunchback prince lies on a red cloth to the left of the old hunchback’s donkey. Above him we can see Earthdom and the flying horse in a scene which forms the contents and composition of the companion painting – The Flying Horse of Earthdom

Original
Acrylic on canvas
100cm x 150cm
Can be seen at John Slavin Morningside
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A Thorn in the King's Foot

Illustration of Duncan Williamson's wonder tale from Scottish Traveller tradition, 'The Thorn in the King's Foot'

Original
Acrylic on canvas
80cm x 100cm
Can be seen at John Slavin Morningside

Angus and Bride

The marriage of love between the god of youth and the goddess of new life at the gateway to Spring.

Original
Acrylic on canvas
46cm x 36cm
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Beira Hag of Winter

The season of winter personified in Celtic story; Beira wields her hammer on the shoreline of the Isle of Skye.

Original
Acrylic on canvas
46cm x 36cm
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Creation of the Unicorn

Illustration of Duncan Williamson's wonder tale from Scottish Traveller tradition, 'Coming of the Unicorn'.

Original
Acrylic on canvas
80cm x 100cm
Can be seen at Scottish Storytelling Centre
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Jack and his Cuckoo

From the traditional Traveller tale, 'Jack and the Singing Leaves', the folk hero mends the broken wing of a wild cuckoo.
Now in the private collection of Ruth Danziger, Toronto.

Original
Acrylic on canvas
50cm x 40cm
Can be seen at John Slavin Morningside
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La Mer la Moocht

The merman returns to his undersea home intending to take his friend, the old fisherman, with him. Traveller tale by Duncan Williamson, published by Penguin and Floris Books.

Original
Acrylic on canvas
46cm x 35cm
Can be seen at Taigh na Teud

The Coming of the Unicorn

The unicorn is about to knock the king's shield from his grasp in a child's dream. [portrait of toddler Oskar Duncan Arthur Williamson, grandson of the late Duncan Williamson]

Original
Acrylic on canvas
46cm x 36cm
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The Flying Horse of Earthdom

Illustration of Duncan Williamson's wonder tale from Scottish Traveller tradition, 'The Flying Horse of Earthdom'. In the private collection of storyteller David Campbell, Edinburgh.

Original
Acrylic on canvas
100cm x 80cm
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The Queen of Knowledge

From the third and final part to the 'Twelve White Swans' in the telling of this international wonder tale by Scots Traveller Duncan Williamson . . . 'If you had dreamed your dream out to the end,' says the Queen of Knowledge to her son seeking the cure to the prince's swan-wing-arm. Set near Waverley Station, Edinburgh.

Original
Oil on canvas
90cm x 60cm

The Sculptors of the Unicorn

The king and his sculptors on the occasion of the completion of his two unicorn statues. Set in Edinburgh High Street at the Netherbow.

Original
Oil on canvas
90cm x 60cm