Welsh Hub

All of us in the Welsh Hub would like to say Happy International Women’s Day to all those identifying as a woman today 💕. It just happens that we are all women in our group, although men from the who are living/working in Wales are most welcome.
As a group of women working together in Wales, we encourage and support each other in our group and solo projects. Life is so much easier when you’ve found your tribe…don’t you agree?

Much love to for bringing us together and for the feminine energy circulating today 🙏💕✨

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Sun Hieroglyph

Melanie T. Pettersen
www.melanietpettersenartist.com
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My study of painted wesekh collars on ancient Egyptian mummys, and the sacred symbolic images in them, I found the 'Sun' hieroglyph repeatedly features.

What I also found was the sun hieroglyph image, was used as the basis for other symbols featured, working out what their spiritual reference are to the afterlife has been my focus in this collection at the 'New Horizon' exhibition at Llanover Hall Arts Centre Cardiff Wsles UK.

Tasheriankh

My first painting inspired by ancient Egyptian funeral artefacts, shown yesterday, I based the design on a sketch I had made and then added colours and extra features, my interest captured, I wanted to revisit the original, but because we were in lockdown I had to rely on the internet. So I went looking for this mummy and I found her, she is part of the the Egypt and Sudan collection of the Manchester Museum, her name is Tasheriankh from Akhmim c300-30 BCE, and that she's in 'The Golden Mummies of Egypt' exhibition, currently touring the globe and will return to Manchester this November in conjunction with the celebration of the discovery of King Tutankhamun tomb 100 years ago, and the opening of a new exhibition space, at Manchester Museum, spring 2023.
You can see photos of this mummy which were taken for the book accompanying this travelling exhibition here.

Photographing the mummy

https://tetisheri.co.uk

https://tetisheri.co.uk/golden-mummies-coffin-tasheriankh/?sfw=pass1645524883

Golden Mummies of Egypt Exhibition

https://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/about/hellofuture/exhibitionhall/