I was thinking about seminal images of pretty little toes that feature in the spectrum of childhood illustrtations.The Twleve Dancing Princesses who wear out their shoes each night from secret dancing.
Arthur Rackham's delicate fairy creatures "Fairies don't feel happy they feel dancy!" floating gracefully across dreamy meadows and babbling brooks, quintessentially English, feminine and fragile. And Cecily Mary Barker's definitive Flower Fairy Collection, where angelic children personify the qualities of native flowers from fields and hedgerows with a delicate and subtle grace. What could be more appealing than to enter these timeless worlds of tiny creatures cradling petals or hiding under giant bell flowers, their feet in little acorn boots or circles with anklets of daisies? Doesn't it make you want to run barefoot through sleepy dawn forests as the mists rise in the hopes of seeing a fairy child at play ? Shhhh...they are very secretive!
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