I finally got a good photo of this gal...I’m calling her “Danu”. In meditation, I asked who she was, and that is the name she gave. Interestingly enough, Danu, “in the Celtic religion, is the earth-mother goddess...who was honoured under various names from eastern Europe to Ireland “. “She is an ancient Irish triple goddess who is considered the “Great Mother” of Ireland. She is the Mother of the Irish gods and faery people, the Tuatha Dé Danann , which literally means the “People of the Goddess Danu”.. “. This image arrived in my mind fully formed...I’m not sure where she came from. She wasn’t an idea I had for a painting, she was just a painting I hadn’t painted yet. I haven’t worked in this way since I was a child, and it’s way out of my comfort zone! I usually work from a single photo, not from my imagination, so it’s very new to me. It’s exciting and scary at the same time, but now that I’ve allowed the door to open, it’s like a flood of images wanting to be painted! #conceptualart #opusbeyond #imaginativerealism #goddessart #goddessdanu #visionaryart #figurativeart #oilpainting (at Dragonfly Studio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNS91_SHLJC/?igshid=143haair8n56p
