Finding Wonderland


Mission: To establish an immersive art library, artist retreat, and museum that honors myth, fairy tale and folklore. This place is called Wonderland.

Purpose: To preserve and celebrate wonder in children of all ages through the use of fairy tale and folklore. We encourage original contributions through writing, sculpting, painting, music and other forms of artistic expression.

History: In the summer of 2020, Angi, her husband Silas and their brother Lee journeyed to the UK seeking residency. Because of Silas’s status as a member of European Union, he qualified to apply for residency status prior to the Brexit deadline in December 2020. Though no one wanted to travel amidst Covid, all ventured forth in hopes of securing a magical property to house the Wonderland collection in the land that gave us Camelot, the 100 Acre Wood and Hogwarts.

This blog begins with the first day of that journey and continues all around the UK, following our adventures as the FINDING WONDERLAND path unfolds.

  • 1997

    While Angi lies paralyzed from the neck down in a hospital, Wendy Froud gifts her a healing faerie, which also gives her hope. Angi decides the best way to share this hope is to create a place where people can meet these kinds of creatures and have magical interactions of their own. It will be a place called Wonderland.

  • 1999

    Angi opens Duirwaigh Gallery, the first gallery to exclusively exhibit myth and fairy tale artwork to an international audience online. Sales from the gallery are used to raise funds for Wonderland.

  • 2003

    Duirwaigh Publishing opens, publishing mythic prints and greeting cards.

  • 2004

    Angi creates “A Knock at the Door”, featuring the artists of Duirwaigh Gallery. The film is seen by millions of viewers —passed from email to email—before the era of YouTube.

  • 2006

    “A Knock at the Door” sells out its first book printing. Angi and Silas move to Taos, New Mexico to create the first version of Wonderland.

  • 2009

    Wonderland opens as a part of Angi and Silas’s home.

  • 2010

    Angi writes and publishes “Doorways and Dreamfields: A True Fairy Tale” which charts the evolution of Duirwaigh Gallery and its mission to create a non profit museum and artist retreat.

  • 2011

    Wonderland hosts its first workshops and retreats in Taos, New Mexico.

  • 2014

    Angi launches Muse Juice Tours which takes wonder seekers around the globe to find myth and magic.

  • 2020

    Trip to England to look for Wonderland’s permanent home. FINDING WONDERLAND, the journey of establishing a place for fairy tale— begins! The latest articles and videos appear on this page below. To watch from the beginning, you’ll have to go all the way back to page one.
September 8, 2020

Cast a Big Shadow…

A teacher once told me “if you carry big light you cast a big shadow.” Simply put, if you’re actively trying to make a difference in the world, charge it with enthusiasm or inspiration or light, there’s work to be done in the unconscious. Wherever you relegate the unwanted aspects of yourself, there lies both opportunity and treasure. “Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”– Joseph Campbell Somewhere along the way shadow aspects have got a bad rap. Weakness, vulnerability, tenderness, doubt, Selfishness, judgment, impatience, anxiety, depression, anger and yet if you think about all of the ginormous strides you […]
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September 7, 2020

Lying down…

Sometimes you just gotta LIE DOWN. No matter how brave, how stalwart, how true…sometimes you just have to surrender and let the world have its way with your raw, burning heart. Oh it can’t have your soul, or your worth, or your peace. But it can have your heart, because to live any other way than vulnerably whole-hearted is a denial of your most authentic nature. And sometimes that kind of wide open love requires stillness. Surrender. Gratitude. Even when things are sucky. Even when they are hard. Especially when they seem impossible. Like right now. The world is burning. […]
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September 4, 2020

when you’re tempted to give up….

when you’re tempted to give up to not believe go to the ruins of all you once held dear and marvel at the person the brokenness has created you, in the center of all that’s failed like a phoenix burning free unleashed into new life you are the ancestor of the woman you will become she is sending gratitude to where you stand now your ruin ignited her future Into a blaze of possibility – Angi Sullins .
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September 2, 2020

More House Porn!

Saw another house today. I know. I know. I’m so in love with the first house I have eyes for none other – unless it’s a cathedral, or a castle. But we must invest due diligence. Why? Cuz getting the fairy tale (first house we viewed) is a l-o-n-g shot. The process of getting a house here is quite complicated and involved for us Americans, and yet the demand is so high for homes since Covid struck, houses don’t stay on the market more than 60 days at best. So we continue to look and find more reasons to fall […]
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