Mark Skirving
Artist
Mythical Beauty
I am the Great Mother, worshipped by all and
existent prior to their consciousness.
I am the primal female force, boundless and eternal.
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Fair Rosamund 60cm x 60cm Oils on canvas £1800
Oil & acrylic on boxed canvas 114cm x 71cm £750 “Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?” ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
Oil & acrylic on boxed canvas 114cm x 71cm £750 “Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds,--/ Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross. ” ― John Milton
Oils & acrylic on canvas 76 cm x 51 cm £800. Painted in my Birmingham Studio 2015 Branwen: Welsh Goddess of love and beauty. A daughter of Manannan and Iweridd whose name means "fair bosom“ or “white breasted”. She is often equated with the Greek Aphrodite.
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Oils, acrylic and texture paste on canvas 101 cm x 80 cm £650 Blodeuedd: (Welsh) Goddess of Spring, she was created from flowers. Lily maid of Celtic initiation ceremonies. Also known as the Ninefold Goddess of the Western Isles of Paradise.