COMMISSIONS
"Daisy presented me with a beautiful piece of art that went far beyond my expectations." - A. Day

"From a basic brief and a few photos, Daisy used her talent, imagination and creativity to create a very special picture for me. The pictures were for my partner whose beloved horse had to be put down. Daisy painted with heart and care about the situation, and you can really feel that sentiment when you look at the images.
For something truly personal and bespoke I would highly recommend Daisy" - P. Goldsmith

Now taking commissions - please email thedaisyblack@gmail.com for enquiries.
​See below for a selection of previous commissions, and scroll down for available prints. 

ART PRINTS 
A4 - £27.50
A5 - £17.50
Please email thedaisyblack@gmail.com to purchase 

MARI LWYD

"Without the door let sorrow lie,
And if for cold it hap to die, 
We'll bury't in a Christmas Pie, 
And evermore be merry."
-- George Wither

Art print of a gouache painting of the Mari Lwyd, or the Grey Mare. A folk custom from South Wales, the Mari Lwyd would make its rounds in the dark days between Christmas and the New Year, wassailing from door to door.  If, during the back-and-forth, the occupants could not perform a suitable musical retort, they must admit the Mari Lwyd and provide food and drink for it and its company. 

Part of the upcoming Folklore Series
​

THE OAK KING

"The force that through the green fuse drives the flower" 
-- Dylan Thomas
​
In various folklore traditions, a seasonal battle rages between the Oak King and the Holly King, the former coming to power after the Winter Solstice when the longest day is past, the latter winning for the dark half of the year. 

Part of the upcoming Folklore Series
​

​ SKULKER IN THE FERNS
​
"I shall go into a hare, 
With sorrow and sych and micekle care;
And I shall go in the Devil's name, 
Ay while I come home again"
-- the confession of Isobel Gowdie 1662

Part of the upcoming Folklore Series
​

BLACK SHUCK 


"A straunge, and terrible Wunder wrought very late in the parish church of Bongay: a town of no great distance from the citie of Norwich, namely the fourth of this August, in the yeere of our Lord 1577.

in a great tempest of violent raine, lightning, and thunder, the like wherof hath been seldome seene.

With the appeerance of an horrible shaped thing, sensibly perceiued of the people then and there assembled.

Drawen into a plain method according to the written copye.

​by Abraham Fleming."

Part of the upcoming Folklore Series
​

​SEA-FEVER

"I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying."
​--John Masefield 

MARMALADE KITTEN 

 " But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
     The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
     Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
          His ineffable effable
          Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular name."
-- T. S. Elliot 
​

​ GREETING CARDS​

GET IN THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT
Based on the design of a Ouiji board, harking back to the Xmas tradition of ghost stories and contacting the dead in the dark half of the year. 
YULE TIDE BLEATINGS
​ The Yule Goat of Scandinavian and North European Tradition wearing a mistletoe wreath 
£8 for a pack of four