Moonlight falling and Fairy thorn

Description

There is an Irish word for a circular group of fairy trees, or thorn bushes, Blackthorn and Hawthorn.  That word is sceach and has a rich Irish folklore significance.

I’ve always had a fascination about being in the woods at night.  Trees take on a different form, unseen in daylight.  I talk more of this in relation to my painting ‘Night-time trees in a blue satin dress (Crainn oíche i ngúna gorm satin)’, but here’s a flavour…

“In the dark, I walked through fields, over stone wall and fairy stream.  In the dark of night we went, to be amongst trees.  Their glowing beauty and strange energy that enthralled me.  To the ‘Fairy ring’ mouse and me.  We ducked through sheep-made tunnels and twisted maze, then hunkered down and ate my bread.

I had this feeling of complete and utter freedom… there was such an elemental power in it… to feel at one with that world, beneath the trees in the corner of this field in the night.”

• Original Irish Landscape oil painting
• Donegal landscape painting
• Péinteáil Tírdhreach Dhún na nGall
• Original artwork
• Oil on canvas.
• Painting size 60 x 80 cm
• Framed size (approx.)  62.5x 82 x 3.5 cm
• Off white limed wooden frame (no glass)
• Price includes frame.