Circe, Madeline Miller

🔹Book: Circe (Madeline Miller)

🔹Title: The Sorceress of Aiaia Edition🦁✨

🔹Date created: October 2025

🔹Medium: Gouache watercolors, paperback copy, matt varnish sealant

🔹Description: 

This fore-edge painting depicts Circe in her element—powerful, self-possessed, and deeply connected to the natural and magical world around her. She is illustrated in traditional Greek attire with a delicate laurel-style headband, her skirt tied up for tending her garden. Circe holds her wand with quiet confidence as poppy petals swirl around her, symbolizing her magic.

A lioness stands at her side, embodying her fierce independence and the animal-like presence often associated with her in myth and Madeline Miller’s retelling. Behind her stretches the open sea surrounding Aiaia, her island home. The top and bottom edges are finished with shimmering gold.

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