Leaning out softly, Glencar

"Leaning softly out
From ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping
than you can understand."

~ extract from poem by W.B Yeats

Limited edition of 15 digital giclee prints available, signed and numbered by the artist.

The 50ft Glencar Waterfall, a short walk from Glencar Lough, is famous for being an inspiration to Ireland’s greatest poet William Butler Yeats and features in his poem ‘The Stolen Child’.

Surrounded by breathtaking prehistoric mountain skylines, Rowan, Birch and fern, it has an otherworldly atmosphere.

When I visited to study for this painting, we saw how the breeze picked the particles of water and sprayed them back into the air with prism lights dancing around the whole space.  Its original name 'srut i n-agaid an aeir' means 'the stream against the air'.  A Farie dream-like experience.