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Stolen Child      2012 Monica Knighton      USA                                                   Art Medium: Pen and watercolour. Description: The inspiration comes from the poem written 1896 by William Butler Yates with the theme of fairy spirits attempting to charm and lead children into their fairy realm. The first of the four stanzas including the chorus shown below. Knighton has sensitively and subtly translated his imagery into tarot forms, resisting the temptation to label each card with the arcana name. The edition is printed onto a quality textured matt paper in an edition of 500 signed and numbered. The cards are unnumbered and untitled. Where dips the rocky highland Of Sleuth Wood in the lake, There lies a leafy island Where flapping herons wake The drowsy water rats; There we've hid our faery vats, Full of berrys And of reddest stolen cherries. Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.