This series of artworks is about the winter season in Britain and some of the mythology/legends that surround it. In particular I am interested the Celtic legends.
The Queen of Winter (Cailleach Bheara), rises from her slumbers at Samhainn (1 November) and heralds the return of winter; Scottish legend has it that the Cailleach shaped the mountains and glens and controlled the weather. She is also known in Ireland as The Hag of Beara. She is a Celtic deity, the goddess of the winter months controlling the weather, winds and the length/harshness of the winter. Cailleach can mean "veiled one", a wise/spiritual woman, or fortune teller or impossibly old woman/hag.
Here she stands, surveying the mountains and glens she has shaped, reflecting the hues of the water, land and skies surrounding her. #sensuouspractice
WINTER 3: CAILLEACH BHEARA
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original mixed media sculpture; w 52 x h 90 x d 36 cm