Hare In The Rape Field Greetings Card by Karen Cater

£2.40

The woodcut-style artwork on this card shows a hare at harvest time in a field of oil seed rape.

There is a poem on the reverse of the card about the turn of the seasons, which references the particular symbolism used in the artwork.

THe artist Karen Cater is fascinated by the esoteric or mystical qualities of her subject matter, incorporating layers and levels of meaning into her compositions by her use of correspondences of imagery or colour, breathing life and identity into old song titles or figures from mythology or history.

This card comes cellophane wrapped and is 170mm x 120mm (6 and 3/4 inches x 4 and 3/4 inches). It has a kraft paper envelope.

It's blank inside for you to write your own message

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People have for many centuries been fascinated by the hare because of its perceived attributes of solitude and remoteness. Active at night, symbolic of the intuitive, and the fickleness of the Moon, the hare was an emblem of unpredictability. Like the Moon, which always changes places in the sky, hares were full of mystery and contradictions. The moon was perhaps the most powerful symbol of birth, growth, reproduction, death and rebirth.

The Celts believed that the goddess Eostre's favourite animal and attendant spirit was the hare. It represented love, fertility and growth and was associated with the Moon, dawn and Easter - death, redemption and resurrection. Eostre changed into a hare at the full Moon. The hare was sacred to the White Goddess - the Earth Mother - and as such was considered to be a magical animal.