‘Tristan and Isolde’ by Edmund Blair Leighton (1902)
Posted by Dorothy Lander
Legend tells of Isolde who fell in love with Tristan, the nephew of her husband the King of Cornwall. At their deaths the king ordered the lovers be buried far apart but an ivy shoot grew from each grave and eventually entwined in a lovers’ knot to reunite them.
Ivy and other twining vines will feature in upcoming HARP publications: Hmmm: M the Humdinger (an interactive tale of Nature’s Child who hums along with bees and hummingbirds) and The Book of Hands (hands of artists and caregivers created from the botanicals that hold special meaning for them)
What is not so well known about the legend is that Tristan was a musician who played the harp for his beloved Isolde. Mary Ellen Winn writes about the medieval French romance called the Prose Tristan in her 2017 article in the journal Early Music:
https://academic.oup.com/em/article-abstract/45/2/171/4043873
Posted by Dorothy Lander: dorothy@tryhealingarts.ca The talented team at This is Marketing (https://www.thisismarketing.ca/) chose a unique colour palette to illuminate
L to R Clockwise: John Graham-Pole aged 2 on Mummy’s knee with sisters Elizabeth, Mary, and Jane, High Bickington, Devon,
Posted by Dorothy Lander Once a month, John Graham-Pole and I showcase the publications of HARP The People’s Press at
Aboriginal Rock Mural Kimberley Region, Western Australia Posted by John Graham-Pole I don’t have answers to any of these questions,
