About Meraylah

Meraylah Allwood is an award-winning British artist and illustrator. Her work appears in many books and decks on tree-lore, healing, land-based wisdom and Earth mysteries, and her original paintings (often miniature) are exhibited and collected widely.  Meraylah lives on a smallholding full of wildlife with her family, and is  slowly planting a forest garden.

  “My art is inextricably connected to the land I live on – a rural smallholding – and for the last 12 years we have been creating (and leaving well alone) habitats as safe places for the multitude of creatures living here or passing through. We have planted hundreds of trees, many of which are now tall and vibrant, feeding and housing birds, animals, insects, fungi (and us). We live in an area of intense agriculture where the soil has been eroded and poisoned for decades…but our land forms a green island, connecting to neighbouring islands, and has increased in biodiversity over recent years. (There is much more about our homestead on Patreon.) 

As a freelance illustrator I have been blessed with some fabulous projects over the decades, most notably being immersed in the Forest of Enchantment, with Lunaea, for much of the last nine years, and I am honoured to know that thousands of people around the World use our cards to inspire, focus and contemplate, and to bring comfort. Our Forest brings the magic of the deep woods and the truth of the wilds to us wherever we may be. Art can connect us all in more ways than words allow, we need creative inspiration and storytelling to inspire and comfort in these troubled and challenging times”.