Atching Tan Print

A red sun-wheel burns bright in the blue sky above a green land. The sixteen-spoked wheel represents the Romani flag, where a red chakra (wheel) spins over a half blue (for sky), half green (for earth) background.

A scene amongst the trees with a vardo (traditional travelling wagon) stopped at the laneside and its travelling folk collecting firewood and stoking the fire under a kettle for tea. Their horse grazes and the road winds on toward the horizon. This is the Atching Tan - the Stopping Place, the wonderful camp amongst trees - a place to relax and cook and wash, to find water and let the horses rest and the children play, to make repairs to wagons and to make contact with the locals for work and exchange of goods and services.

And just by the road sits a wagtail, the romano chiriclo (Romany bird). The motto Oke romano chiriklo, dikasa e Kalen is Welsh Romany for "Behold a Wagtail and you shall see Gypsies". Indeed all piebald animals are thought to be lucky in Gypsy tradition because they hold both dark and light in them simultaneously.

Print from an original clock painted in oils on Yew wood.