Cats A-Z: F (Freyja)

"Freyja" 
Woodcut
6.5" x 8" (paper) 4" x 4" (image) 
Oil-based inks on bright white printmaking paper 
Artist's Proof 
Available for purchase here. 

Freyja 

Twin cats furiously leap and bound to pull Freyja's chariot. Though I cannot see her face, her stance is stalwart, one hand firm on the reins, the other gripping her staff. She has come to gather the souls of the fallen. From this view I cannot tell, are the twins as large as lions, or pint-sized and imbued with supernatural strength? Either way, the goddess will arrive.

Freyja is a prominent goddess in the pantheon of Norse mythology, ruling over the heavenly afterlife field of Fólkvangr.

Cats A-Z: D (Diana)

"Diana"
Woodcut
5" x 7" (paper) 3" x 4" (image)
Oil-based inks on Rives BFK
Artist's Proof
Available for purchase here.

Diana 

The leopard, a fierce and stealthy hunter, consumes any creatures it can kill. The big cat was ubiquitous in the Old World, thriving in desserts and rain forests alike. Appropriately, the divine huntress Diana wears a leopard's skin. What other garb could be a more fearsome sign of her dominance over all that creep and crawl, slither and scamp?

In Roman mythology, Diana is the goddess of hunting and fertility, associated with wild animals and the moon.