Isle of Man · Fine Art Photography · Celtic North Atlantic

Wild.
Ancient.
Feminine.

Visual storytelling rooted in the mythology, landscape, and slow fashion of the Celtic and Norse North Atlantic world.

Queen of Moss & Myth

Featured · Celtic Folklore · Blackthorn Season

The Lunantishee of the Isle of Man

The Celtic fae who guard the blackthorn. Lunar, territorial, and entirely unbothered by your good intentions. On the Lunantishee, the blackthorn winter, and what the tree asks of you.

April 2026 · Isle of Man

From the Journal

The Lunantishee — Celtic fae blackthorn, Isle of Man

Celtic Folklore · Blackthorn

Celtic Fae, Blackthorn, and the Lunantishee

The moon fairies who guard the blackthorn. Lunar, territorial, and entirely unbothered by your good intentions.

April 2026

Portraits · Mythology

She Belongs to the Moss

On the Glashtyn of the Manx glens, ancient hawthorn trees, and the twenty-million-year-old laurissilva forest of Madeira.

2025

Portraits · Isle of Man

The Wind Knows Her Name

On the Cailleach, the cloak of Manannan, and photographing the open landscape of the Isle of Man.

2025

Visual storytelling rooted in the ancient North Atlantic world.

Fine art photographer and Photographer in Residence for Visit Isle of Man 2025–26. My work lives at the intersection of mythology, landscape, and the feminine seasonal cycle.

She has Celtic roots. Obviously.

About Ciara →

Wild

Rooted in landscape, undomesticated by trend

Ancient

Celtic mythology, Norse heritage, the slow turn of seasons

Feminine

The archetype, the body, the cycle — not the aesthetic

Inaugural Role · 2025–26 · BBC Featured

Biosphere Photographer in Residence

Appointed as the Isle of Man's first-ever Biosphere Photographers in Residence alongside Adam Morgan — a year-long residency titled Nature as Your Muse: Portraiture and Wildlife Through the Celtic Wheel.

Developed by Manx Wildlife Trust in collaboration with Visit Isle of Man and UNESCO Biosphere Isle of Man — celebrating the world's only whole-nation UNESCO Biosphere Reserve through the Celtic Wheel of the Year.