1. This Butterfly Has Completed
Metamorphosis
(122cm x 122cm)

2. A Light In The Dark
(122cm x 91.5cm)

3. Brimstone
(122cm x 91.5cm)

4. Butterfly Feeding
(122cm x 91.5cm)

5. The Butterfly Experiment
(122cm x 91.5cm)

6. A Study of Butterflies,
Moths and A Dove with
Rhiannon. (aged five).
(122cm x 122cm)

7. When A Butterfly Flaps
It's Wings.
(122cm x 91.5cm)

8. Silver spiral standing wave.
(91.5cm x 122cm)
Papier-mache and acrylic
relief on board.

9. The Butterfly Land after
Rhiannon
(122cm x 122cm)

NB. All paintings acrylic on
board unless otherwise
stated.

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Art
Artistic depictions of butterflies
have been used in many cultures
including Egyptian hieroglyphs
3500 years ago.
[44] Today,
butterflies are widely used in
various objects of art and jewelry:
mounted in frame, embedded in
resin, displayed in bottles,
laminated in paper, and used in
some mixed media artworks and
furnishings.
[45] Butterflies have
also inspired the "butterfly fairy"
as an art and fictional character,
including in the Barbie Mariposa
film.

Symbolism
According to the “Butterflies”
chapter in Kwaidan: Stories and
Studies of Strange Things, by
Lafcadio Hearn, a butterfly is seen
as the personification of a
person's soul; whether they be
living, dying, or already dead.
One Japanese superstition says
that if a butterfly enters your
guestroom and perches behind
the bamboo screen, the person
whom you most love is coming
to see you. However, large
numbers of butterflies are viewed
as bad omens. When Taira no
Masakado was secretly preparing
for his famous revolt, there
appeared in Kyoto so vast a
swarm of butterflies that the
people were frightened —
thinking the apparition to be a
portent of coming evil.
[46] The Russian word for
"butterfly", (bábochka), also
means "bow tie". It is a
diminutive of "baba" or "babka"
(= "woman, grandmother, cake"),
whence also "babushka" =
"grandmother".

The Ancient Greek word for
"butterfly" is (psch), which
primarily means "soul", "mind".

**Sourced from Wikipedia**