Lycan – Mixed Media Photography on Wood

The Original

Lycan by Robin Rivers is an original piece of mixed media photography on wood from the Retrieval series. I created this piece using my own photography shot in March, 2026 at Château Saint-Pierre de Mejans in France. Each element is hand cut and laid using analog collage techniques. Other elements include acrylic paint, graphite, and medium. 

The piece measures 14×18″″ (w/h) and is mounted on wood. Shipping will be calculated based on location.  Please note that colours and contrast vary between different monitors.  The colours may not match your monitor’s display exactly. Additionally, copyright of my artwork does not transfer with purchase.

The Inspiration for Lycan by Robin Rivers

In this piece, I photographed a thousand-year-old stone pool at an ancient Knights Templar commandery just after a rainstorm, while dark clouds still lingered overhead. Using reflections of bare plane trees, I created a fractal landscape that evokes the castle and garden imagery central to medieval depictions of women. However, this reimagined space reveals something darker and more complex than the passive, idealized femininity of traditional iconography.

 

Click below to read Lycan’s origin story and my paired poetry:

 

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The Artist

Robin Rivers is an artist, photographer, and writer who creates from conversations with ancient ponds and old trees, spirits of place and old ones whose lost stories want to be told. As a mixed-media artist, Rivers works with original photography, museum archives, and storytelling to give form to the old ones who speak to her through dreams, deep listening, and walking the land in ancient places. Her practice weaves together mystical guidance and archival research, creating magical pieces that restore powerful lost connections and stories rising up once again. Robin creates all pieces at Studio Albertine in Vancouver, Canada—on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples. This includes the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

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