Glastonbury – Arthurian Legends

“The knight’s bones are dust
And his good sword is rust
His soul is with the Saints, I trust”

Finished one of this month’s commissions! The client already has a tattoo to represent Arthur on one side of her arm, and wanted a matching one for Merlin. Looking at plants that are native to the British Isles, we settled on acanthus for genius, fern, for sincerity and magic, daisy for loyalty, and hawthorn, since the hawthorn tree has been closely linked with Merlin. A hawthorn grows on Glastonbury Tor, one of the locations rumoured to be where Merlin studied his magic, and it’s a hawthorn tree that Nimue, the daughter of the Lady of the Lake, trapped Merlin in.