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Picture of the Month

The Phoenix conceived by Roger Garland

Phoenix poster by Roger Garland

Phoenix poster by Roger Garland

This brilliant painting was painted by well-known  Tolkien artist Roger Garland way back and is one of the best depictions of the phoenix ever.  It was only ever reproduced as a large poster that for various reasons was poorly distributed making copies hard to find.  We were lucky to buy up the last of them from Roger Garland himself some years back and he signed them all with a silver pen.  A very impressive large image that will make you want to run around the room playing air guitar and singing the Wishbone Ash song!  If you can’t remember the words then here they are:

Bird rise high from the cinders
Leave it all behind

All the ruins and the fire

Bird raise your head from the ashes
Many men lay dead
You can see them like I

Phoenix rise
Raise your head to the sky