Iluminations: gallery room seven

Welcome to the Gallery. Stroll at your leisure around this display of Alison's work. To save you from having to scroll too far, the Gallery is split into seven "rooms" - this is ROOM SEVEN.

To view a larger version of each of the paintings, simply click on the relevant image. Remember, though, that the larger version has a bigger file size and will take longer to download.

Some of the paintings can be bought as cards. If so, their availability is included with the card details. Contact Alison about prices.

A Medieval Hereford Christmas
• Actual size: 125mm x 175mm
• Greeting says: "With Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year"

It is Christmas Day, 1276. Thomas Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford, enters his cathedral in state. Residents of the city look on and children play games in the winter weather. Even the cathedral cat comes out into the cold to join in the festivities!

A few years later, Thomas Cantilupe's tomb in the cathedral became a great draw to pilgrims and many miracles of healing occurred there. He was made a saint in 1320.

Cotswold Nativity
• Actual size: 125mm x 175mm
• Greeting says: "With Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year"

A Cotswolds setting of the nativity. The card features a verse taken from the fifteenth century carol This Endris Night.

Dick Whittington
• Actual size: 125mm x 175mm
• Greeting says: "With Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year"

Born in 1357 in Pauntley, Gloucestershire, the Dick Whittington of pantomime fame was a real historical character who became one of the greatest cloth merchants in medieval England.

Here he leaves from the wonderful carved Normanl doorway of Pauntley Church and sets out for London, where he was appointed four times as Lord Mayor in 1397, 1398, 1407 and 1420. Martlets from the royal coat of arms fly out to meet him and lead the way to London.

Peace on Earth
• Actual size: 125mm x 175mm
• Greeting says: "With Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year"

Four angels with a timely message.

Nativity
• Actual size: 105mm x 148mm
• Greeting says: "With Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year"

A delightful rendition of the traditional nativity scene.

I'm Dreaming of a Green Christmas
• Actual size: 148mm x 148mm
• Greeting says: "With Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year"

A Green Man wears his Christmas finery and dreams of more green and peaceful times.