FAIRY WOODLAND - Key Persons
Bridget Wolfe is a teacher, writer, storyteller, personal coach and guide. She has taught and run groups in various aspects of Shamanism in the United States, England and Ireland and has led journeys to sacred places in the American southwest, Mexico, South America, and England. She holds MA degrees in English and Clinical Psychology and is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.
Her relationship with the Shamanic world and the World of Faerie began as a child and much of her adult life has been spent pursuing those mystical early connections. She has spent almost 30 years studying Shamanism with teachers from North and South America, England, Africa, and Hawaii.
When the Fairies asked John to build them a house, they began whispering their stories to Bridget. She writes the story vignettes for each house and, being an avid gardener, creates miniature Fairy garden habitats for her Faerie World friends.
After years of living in Los Angeles and New York, John and Bridget were led (by the Fairies, of course) back to the more natural settings of their hearts where they can laugh with the blue jays and listen to the eagles call. They make their home on the central Oregon Coast, where Fairies dance on the water in the early morning, whisper in the fir trees, and make the apples blush. They live with a number of cats and acres of woods and gardens filled with Fairies and other Folk who provide continuous inspiration.
Inspiration to create something imaginative is not unusual for artist John Curtis Crawford. He began his career as a puppeteer at the age of twelve and has been a working professional in the arts and entertainment industry most of his life. His initial love of puppetry led him to a career designing and constructing magical creatures and miniature habitats for stage, television, commercials, and feature motion pictures. He has created, built and manipulated various creatures, dinosaurs, and aliens, as well as fanciful characters for Jim Henson's Muppets. His work has won numerous awards including one from the Cannes Film Festival for Special Effects.
John's life-long, deep connection with the natural and mystical worlds also began in his childhood as he wandered the deserts and mountains of Southern California. He learned wildness from the spirit of the mountain and composure from grandmother rattlesnake. The long-needle pines taught him to sing, the blue jay to laugh, and the desert initiated him into mystery and the world of the unseen. When the Fairies found him and opened the door to their world, he was well prepared.
John's studio/workshop is tucked into a mossy green hill concealed by a blackberry bramble patch.