Glen Rock Fae is a feature length documentary about Spoutwood Farm’s annual Fairie Festival, produced to coincide with their 20th anniversary. Filmed, directed and produced by Kevin Spahr, it is a wonderfully uplifting glimpse into the event with interviews with founders Rob and Lucy Wood, and many other organisers, volunteers, performers and attendees. Interspersed with footage from previous years festivals (just getting to see all the impressive costumes is a treat in itself!), are beautiful shots of Spoutwood Farm. It is a truly magical place to hold such an event and the love and reverence for nature is genuinely wonderful to behold. Writing as someone who’s never (yet!) made the trip from the old world to join in the fun at Spoutwood, far from feeling left out, I was struck by the similarities in attitude to our Faerie community here. The joy and love and celebration of nature is universal it seems!

Glen Rock Fae is a feature length documentary about Spoutwood Farm’s annual Fairie Festival, produced to coincide with their 20th anniversary. Filmed, directed and produced by Kevin Spahr, it is a wonderfully uplifting glimpse into the event with interviews with founders Rob and Lucy Wood, and many other organisers, volunteers, performers and attendees. Interspersed with footage from previous years festivals (just getting to see all the impressive costumes is a treat in itself!), are beautiful shots of Spoutwood Farm. It is a truly magical place to hold such an event and the love and reverence for nature is genuinely wonderful to behold. Writing as someone who’s never (yet!) made the trip from the old world to join in the fun at Spoutwood, far from feeling left out, I was struck by the similarities in attitude to our Faerie community here. The joy and love and celebration of nature is universal it seems!

Sentinels standing, monoliths at dusk,
In fields turned to plough,
Where once was forest dark.
Ships and man, now mostly gone,
The oft heard call of bird in song.
Peace abounds the tree this night,
As now perceived by human sight.
Yet beyond the other side of here,
A faerie realm is drawn so near!
To be viewed with wonder through faerie gaze,
Lies a forest filled, an Oakland glade.
Here resides “Diana of Fay”,
Her reality unscathed by human ways.
Within the solitary oak we see,
Diana dwells, at one, at peace.
Drawing on strength from roots deep in ground,
An expression of courage so rarely found.
Her countenance is that of a summer’s day,
Her heart, eager as a spring filled May.
Wings are of Autumn burnished gold,
Her complexion of a frost kissed, winter rose.
Should you chance upon so beautiful a Fay,
Whilst out in fields, wandering some day,
Know in your heart the vision laid forth,
Is naught but a glimpse, a faerie’s thought.

Poem and image courtesy Enchanted. Please visit their site for beautiful bronze faery statuary and ornaments.

Sentinels standing, monoliths at dusk,
In fields turned to plough,
Where once was forest dark.
Ships and man, now mostly gone,
The oft heard call of bird in song.
Peace abounds the tree this night,
As now perceived by human sight.
Yet beyond the other side of here,
A faerie realm is drawn so near!
To be viewed with wonder through faerie gaze,
Lies a forest filled, an Oakland glade.
Here resides “Diana of Fay”,
Her reality unscathed by human ways.
Within the solitary oak we see,
Diana dwells, at one, at peace.
Drawing on strength from roots deep in ground,
An expression of courage so rarely found.
Her countenance is that of a summer’s day,
Her heart, eager as a spring filled May.
Wings are of Autumn burnished gold,
Her complexion of a frost kissed, winter rose.
Should you chance upon so beautiful a Fay,
Whilst out in fields, wandering some day,
Know in your heart the vision laid forth,
Is naught but a glimpse, a faerie’s thought.

Poem and image courtesy Enchanted. Please visit their site for beautiful bronze faery statuary and ornaments.

German-born artist Gary Lovelace paints delightful scenes of faery folk in their natural habitats surrounded by animals and nature. Coming from an artistic family and having spent years experimenting with art techniques and observing nature, his paintings are a glimpse into an alternate reality “with no limitation, an escape from the drone cold world where everything must make sense.”