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Hand-crafted Irish Red Ochre Watercolour Paints Collection (Seven-Piece Set)
This listing is for one Hand-crafted Irish Red Ochre Watercolour Paints Collection (Seven-Piece Set), from The heART of Ritual.
 
Shades of Irish red ochre, each gathered from a different place, hand-dug, washed, levigated, dried, ground to a fine powder, and bound with a resin I have prepared from wild fruit tree resins. Every step has been carried out slowly, by hand, in dialogue with the land.
 
The result is seven watercolour paints, each one unique in tone – from rose blush to iron-rich crimson, from soft clay-red to deep earth-rust. Held in mussel shells collected along the shores of Bantry Bay, they rest as if returned to the sea, gleaming with the colour of earth made fluid.
 
Ochre has been used in ritual and artistry for millennia – painted on skin, traced on stone, ground into vessels, and worked into prayer. These beautiful shell paint pots carry that lineage forward. They can be used in ceremony and ritual body adornment, in painting and artistic creation, or kept simply as sacred companions – vessels of earth and sea brought together.
 
To look upon them is to see seven voices of Irish land – each shade holding the character of its place. To hold them is to feel the meeting of shell and ochre, sea and soil, hand and craft. They are labour-intensive to make, but in that labour lies their depth – a slow, reverent process, so that the paints you hold are more than colour: they are story, place, and offering.
 
Ochres can be applied to the landscapes of the body, on the body of the earth (all surfaces), you can work with them to adorn sacred tools and ritual objects, they can be made into ritual paint or ink for illuminated art, creative journaling, sigil making, talismanic art, and much more.
 
Once you have finished working with these sacred earths, these shell vessels can be used to create water element ritual talismans or other ritual crafts.
 
Please work with these ritual colours sensibly, knowing that they have the potential to stain clothing, textiles and surfaces! Thank you.

Hand-crafted Irish Red Ochre Watercolour Paints Collection (Seven-Piece Set)

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WINTER 2025 COLLECTION: 

Full details of each season’s collection are shared exclusively through our seasonal newsletter. This missive carries the deeper ground of the season – its energies, themes, and archetypes. Shared only four times a year, it offers original long-form writings on the mythic, elemental, and archetypal ground of the season within Irish cosmology and the Celtic Wheel of the Year, along with the creative soil from which each collection emerges. Readers also receive early access and a members-only preview of these handcrafted, ephemeral offerings.

 

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SEASONAL OVERVIEW

Season • Winter

Element • Earth

Direction • North

Archetype • Elder Archetype

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THE FRAMEWORK FOR THIS COLLECTION

Our Winter/Earth Element Collection arrives into the season of Samhain – that threshold between the last new moon of the dying Celtic year in October, astronomical Samhain, and the first new moon of the year to come in November. It is here that endings and beginnings lie folded together – a dreamtime of moons that leads us into the deepest dark – asking us to walk slowly, to walk in Earth time. 

 

This is not the hurried clock-time of the everyday. It is slow time – deep time – recorded in bedrock and fault-line, in layers pressed through clay and shale. As the earth keeps her history in stone and strata, so we carry memory in bone. The land is our larger body – marrow and mountain, clay and skin, each carrying memory. To enter this season is to enter those depths, to map again the contour lines of the inner ground, to feel where the body holds fractures, pressure, weight-bearing, release. The work is slow. The work is old. Stone remembers, and so do we. Our bodies are cairns of remembrance.

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Between Samhain and Solstice we are pilgrims moving through inner hollows and chambers of the soul. It is sanctuary time, a time of reverence and devotion, where prayer is not passive but visceral and embodied – where we kneel not before idols but within the tabernacle of our own being. The ember of light is entrusted to us here, and it must be guarded with care – fanned in trust, sheltered in hope, nourished with care, until it kindles to flame and warmth.

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Samhain is also the season of surrender. To grieve what has passed in the twelve months gone. To honour ancestors, yes, but also to lay down the burdens of the year, the losses and thresholds crossed, the shocks and griefs that linger. As leaves return to soil, so sorrow returns to earth, darkening into humus that feeds what will come. In the body, this work is felt in the earth element – in the musculoskeletal frame, in the gut’s deep work of breaking down and letting go. To release is to create space, and to hold is to become heavy. The earth teaches us this balance, for she both receives and yields in the same breath.

 

This is the annual pilgrimage to the soul’s inner shrine – beyond one life, beyond one line of ancestry. It is the thread that connects us with stone and to soil, with grandmother and grandfather, with all who came before and all who will come after. In this time-out-of-time we reweave ourselves into that thread, into the north, into the slow, enduring rhythm of earth itself. And from that ground – from a living tapestry of blood and bone and surrender – the Solstice light is born again. A flame at the heart of winter.

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REFERENCES THROUGHOUT THIS COLLECTION​

Focus for the Winter collection is the element of Earth, Embodied Ritual & Green Prayer, Illuminating the Dark & the Inner Hearth, Chakras of the Root, Knees/Elbows, Feet/Hands and Earth Star, Physical WellBEing, the Musculoskeletal System, the Digestive System & Intestinal Health, Death, Grief Processing & Trauma Composting, Vulnerability & Surrender, The Pilgrim & the Inner Journey, Protection, Connection & Roots, Hibernation & Radical Rest, Cultivating Sanctuary & Stillness, Conscious Nourishment & Nurturance, and of course, Earth Rituals for the Head, Heart and Hands.

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