If you wander into a dwelling place of a faun, you can be quite certain there will be centaurs in the neighbourhood as well. And that’s how it happened that Zephyr and Boreas came to be – Ogma the Faun was already present, and they naturally followed.
Their first destination was an art gallery near the C.S. Lewis Square in East Belfast, and that location inspired the first working title for the painting: ‘Avenging Aslan’. But that was later changed, and they were given their own names.
Where did those names come from? They were chosen to honour the Greek origins of their myth as well as the source of its transmission to our corner of the world. For 'Boreas' is the North Wind - 'Zephyr' is the West Wind - and together they hail from this windy northwestern European island, where C. S. Lewis took his inspiration to create the magical land of Narnia.

Dr Judyta Szacillo-Haslett