Bright Witch

Forgot the alt text: Image shows a small gouache painting of a sun-dappled meadow filled with flowers. A vibrant tree stands in the mid distance as dense greenery rises into the far landscape.

A little gouache painting inspired by a photo by Ales Krivec 🌱✨

This is stunning 💛

Pixel the incredibly fuzzy cat is lying prone on her back, leggies kicked wide, as she plays with her catnip-filled rat toy.

My writing buddy ☺️

They spin gossamer webs of wanting that coat the bracken like threaded sugar, planting seeds that bloom with time and storm rain… there for the plucking should bruised hearts come to seek them. 2/2

#blueskypoetry

Just before dawn in the early spring, a warm breeze carries wishes to the witch in the woods. While she cannot always answer, she listens to each one, the seashell echo of hearts far younger than hers. 1/2

A collection of small gouache landscape paintings ☺️✨

If the ghoul is feeling especially generous, he may even relinquish them upon your return… in this life, or the next. 2/2

Beneath the shadows of a bone-grey tree there is a hollow where flowers hide. Amongst this bed of spines and wary petals sleeps a fox-shaped ghoul.

If coaxed and praised and bargained with, just so, he might agree to keep your most treasured memories safe within his den. 1/2

A5 sized art print of a skeleton embedded into a wall of stone as vibrant magenta and peach flowers grow to surround it. Dappled moonlight filters across the scene, creating a sense of macabre serenity.

New prints just arrived!! We’ll be selling them at the Melbourne Oddities & Curiosities Expo mid December 😁

The print quality is just ✨ gorgeous ✨ 🤩 So vibrant!!

Digital painting by Zack @paintcapsule.bsky.social

It’s raining, I have a cat on my lap, a hot chocolate in reach, and a book in hand. Perfect start to a Sunday 🥰

She gathers this magic for potions stirred in secret cauldrons, filled with mud and river gems. Her keepers sigh, hiding smiles as she presses her work into the flowerbeds. When the roses bloom at last, they flutter with the memory of dew-kissed flight. 2/2

Deep in the woods, beyond rockpools filled with the tears of ancient tides… past the logs that pretend to sleep… beyond sight, even, of the last morning star… a young princess watches the moon fall and catches glitter from the wings of moths. 1/2

The Darkwood is a realm within the stories I write which embodies life, loss, grief, creation, and transmutation.

This deck is a pocket-sized kit which draws on the Darkwood’s wisdom 💜

You can find Darkwood Dreaming and other oracles in my shop:

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Image shows the cards and deck box of the Darkwood Dreaming oracle. A stack of cards is set face down on the left side, showing the reverse side of the cards illustrated with a shining crescent moon and flowers. Several cards are sprawled face up, showing illustrations of glowing purple forests and foliage. Card themes include: Chaos, Attachment, Sovereignty, Envy, and Vulnerability. To the right sits the deck box, featured textured purple forest artwork, as well as the deck’s title. Arranged around the deck are decorative flowers, crystals, and loose leaf berry tea.

I make printable oracle decks as teatime companions for healing, inspiration, and guidance ✨

This deck, Darkwood Dreaming, is a 60 card oracle designed for shadow work and deep introspection.

It features ethereal digital artwork painted by Zack @paintcapsule.bsky.social

A gouache painting of a gumtree in a sunlit corner of a park. The sky is blue and wispy with clouds. Fae lights shine in the shadowed foliage.

Walks through the park make it so easy to believe in fairies 🧚✨

Some art I made of a mage collecting flowers in the forest, and some curious observers.

This is absolutely exquisite!! 🤩

There is a witch in the woods who speaks in autumn riddles that fizz and snap like toffeed sugar. Her words melt beneath the mind, pouring down to fill the cracks of splintered hearts and bones hollowed by trickles, rivers, oceans of grief. Her magic carries the scent of home.

Three Ghosts of Grimwood books with illustrated covers. From left to right: The Hunter with an illustration of twin foxes encircling a silver star, Ghost Lights with an illustration of a spectral girl standing in the floral gardens at the base of an enchanted trees, and Fae & Fire with an illustration of a ghostly dragon attacking the stoic form of a young prince.

A small postcard depicting an illustration of the wood witch Marmalade and her companion Marmot as they picnic on a hill-top meadow overlooking the Faewood forest.

Blue Moon: a loose leaf berry tea with edible sparkles arranged into the shape of a dark moon and surrounded by decorative flowers.

Photo of myself, a red-haired woman, seated at a dark wood writing desk reviewing notes as my calico cat, Pixel, approaches to investigate.

Hi! I’m Sarah Louise of Bright Witch ✨ I write dark, cosy fairytale fantasy filled with cheeky witches, spectral alchemy, secret cottages, and haunted forests.

Brew yourself something delicious and immerse yourself in a realm of deep magic 📚🍂🍁✨

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