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Currently running a 25% off everything sale at http://theartoflore.etsy.com for the next few weeks. Prints, tees, wall hangings, gift boxes & more.

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Album artwork for 'Witnesses' by Italian Doomers (EchO)

More info and art soon.

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FREE SHIPPING ON INPRNT

Inprnt have free shipping this weekend. I've added a few more pieces of my recent work as prints including the Ériu Diptych which isn't available anywhere else right now. Inprint can frame them for you too but they're super expensive so just use ikea ;)

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/adamrobertmartin/

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ADHD Black Metal Band Style Logo Tee/Goods. Inspired by those almost ineligible metal band logos & a recent epiphany... Available in a quite frankly ludicrous amount of garment/colour options plus accessories & home goods on Threadless. For the ADHDers and those who support them.

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Ériu.

https://ofLore.Art

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'LILITH ~ Of Life & Fire' is now back in stock in the shop on heavyweight A4 380gsm stock with Gold Foiling. Had a lot of requests to restock this one so glad to have her back in the shop! https://theartoflore.etsy.com These are heavyweight enough to stand on their own and the gold foiling looks great in the changing light. This will be the last release or restock for a while until some of the existing shop stock sells. I’m working on a new personal piece that may take some time to complete! I am still open to private commissions so feel free to get in touch. A

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The old fashioned ways are best sometimes. When social media crashes and burns we'll need these old ways. So you can now sign up to a newsletter from me with updates on new work and print releases. No more than once a month I promise! Subscribe here ~ https://bit.ly/3BCZ8Zt

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Work in progress on an album cover.

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I’ve just completed a new portfolio site ~ http://ofLore.Art ~ to showcase my work and projects from the last couple of years as well as some older work, which I think still stands the test of time!

Have a look around and let me know what you think.

And a reminder that I’m open for commissions for 2022, big or small. Contact me here or through the site.

Huge thanks to everyone who follows me here and elsewhere. Always humbled when anyone takes an interest in what I do.

Take Care!

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New in the shop, A very limited number of A2 ‘An Fèar Gortach’ {The Hungry Grass} Prints on Etching Cotton Rag 315gsm paper. Signed & numbered. https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1146129910/an-fear-gortach-the-hungry-grass Probably my favourite piece to date, which is why I went for the bigger size than normal. But also the detail kind of required the larger size. Although part of me was initially hesitant to get prints made at all because of the history of where the folklore came from, but should one person read more on the Irish famine because of it then I feel maybe it’s worth doing. You can read more on my initial post of this piece. Any shares/reblogs are greatly appreciated!

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The Doagh Holestone. Visited this fascinating standing stone a while back and fancied doing a quick piece.

Text from Belfast stories.com::

Traditionally the Holestone, sometimes called the Lovestone, is associated with love and marriage. A woman would place her hand through the hole and her intended would clasp it on the other side. Thus they were betrothed and pledged to each other undying love. In some cases, when clergy were unavailable the Holestone was used as the marriage ceremony itself. Local engaged couples and newly-weds still visit the Holestone in honour of this ancient custom.

“To this day, through all the changes of race and peoples that have occurred in County Antrim… the tradition that the Holestone is a betrothal, if not a marriage token remains unbroken, and couples from all the district round still plight their troths by clasping fingers through the ring or hole in this stone”.

H C Lawlor The Irish Naturalists Journal 1930

No one knows the origins or the original intended purpose of the stone. One theory is that it was a meeting place for Celtic kings, perhaps to seal deals or pacts. Others believe it marks a significant burial site. It has also been associated with pagan altars and fertility rites. Folklore claims that if you look through the hole it will guide you to hidden treasure.

The Holestone – A Warning for the unfaithful

One legend tells of a man who was unfaithful on his wedding night. The couple had sworn their fidelity at the Holestone. He was cursed to spend eternity as a black horse roaming the countryside.

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An Féar Gortach ~ The Hungry Grass New personal illustration piece based on the Irish folklore of ‘the Hungry Grass’, a cursed patch of grass, that caused an insatiable sense of hunger and weariness upon anyone who walked over it. Another version of the folklore features, Fear Gorta The Hungry Man or The Man of Famine, who takes the shape the shape of a starving, emaciated person. The Féar Gorta roams the Irish hillsides, begging people for alms. Some accounts describe the Fear Gorta as the undead corpse of a person who passed away and was left on the ground without a proper burial. It is said that if grass were to sprout over the body, then it would turn into the Fear Gorta.
~ Both versions of these tales are thought to have arisen from the events of the Great Famine in Ireland. The Irish Famine (or Great Hunger/Great Famine) was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1852. During the Great Hunger, about 1 million people died and more than a million fled the country, causing the country’s population to fall by 20–25%. Between 1845 and 1855, no fewer than 2.1 million people left Ireland, primarily on packet ships but also steamboats and barks one of the greatest mass exoduses from a single island in history. From 1846, the impact of the blight was exacerbated by the British Whig government’s economic policy of laissez-faire capitalism. They believed that it would be unethical for them to intervene and that helping the poor would only make them lazy and dependent. Longer-term causes include the system of absentee landlordism and single-crop dependence. Countries around the world heard of the plight of the Irish and help was sent. From the Ottoman Empire, Sultan Abdülmecid I was only 23 years old in 1847 when he personally offered ₤10,000 in aid to Ireland. British diplomats advised him that it would be offensive for anyone to offer more than Queen Victoria, who had only donated ₤2,000. It was suggested that he should donate half of that amount, so he gave ₤1,000. Even so, Sultan Abdülmecid I had found other ways to help. Today, the port town of Drogheda in Ireland includes a crescent and a star, both of which are symbols of Islam, in its coat of arms. Local tradition in the town has it that these symbols were adopted after the Ottoman Empire secretly sent five ships loaded with food to the town in May 1847. The reason for the secrecy is that the British administration had allegedly tried to block the ships from entering Drogheda’s harbor. Evidence that story these claims include newspaper articles from the period and a letter from Irish notables explicitly thanking the sultan for his help. The Choctaw people, a Native American people from what is now Alabama and Mississippi collected $170 to send to people in Ireland. Recently the Irish repaid this kindness by donating €2.5 million to the Navajo Nation which spans part of Arizona, Utah and New Mexico in the US after the Navajo nation had been devastated by coronavirus. Over a million people died in poverty, starvation and agony in Ireland during the Great Famine. These victims of famine were thrown into mass graves, usually fields. All were originally un-consecrated, although in later years many became memorialised and recognised consecrated ground. Over the top of these burial sites the grass grew and it was said to be cursed. ~ I’m no writer so the above is a mishmash of various sources I’d read as research for the piece, including: Ann Massey/Dark Emerald Tales, Lorethrill, amayodruid, the sciencefaithand more. Apologies if anything here is not accurate. And feel free to correct me if you have better knowledge of the events or folklore. I recommend doing your own research if any of this history or folklore interests you! Reference Model: @valentinablackpearl. Huge thanks to Valentina for self shooting some reference photography for me to use on this piece. I may do a very limited run of larger size prints of this in the New Year if anyone is interested. However you may be celebrating the coming days, or not, stay safe and take care of yourselves! A

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Etching print made by hand by myself. The antlered Goddess; one of the most ancient female deities of the British Isles, dating back to the Paleolithic era. *Please note* Each is slightly different in size and appearance. Some have more ink than others. And some of them are on slightly different paper colour tones. If framing I recommend just mounting the print in the middle of a bigger frame with no border. They are approx 43cm H x 25cm W                

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Running a giveaway over on instagram ~ https://www.instagram.com/p/CV79mN7IjfR/

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ALBUM COVER DESIGNED FOR NORTHERN IRISH BLACK METAL BAND ‘DRAKONIS’

designed and illustrated by Adam Robert Martin www.instagram.com/art.of.lore

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The Holly King. Illustration for Yule greeting cards in 3 colours coming soon. The words are from ‘Noon of the Solstice’ by Damh the Bard / @paganmusic I know it’s still too early for this kind of thing but wanted to get these out early as I’m usually a little slow off the mark preparing for these celebrations! I’ll be including these in a small giveaway I’m doing later in the week. Hope you all enjoyed Samhain whatever you got up to! #hollyking #greenman #oakking #yule #greetingcard #damhthebard #illustration #art #irishart #folklore #yuletide #yulefolklore #hornedone #thehornedone