Seawitch Artist

Divine Union

The total Solar eclipse represents to so many Pagans, witches and
Wiccans the perfect harmony between God and Goddess, male and female,
Feminine Moon and masculine Sun

The Diamond ring effect placed here with software will have it’s own message.
I used the phenomena as a platform to paint a Pentacle, the best known
symbol in Witchcraft and Wicca, a pentagram enclosed in a circle that some,
especially more conservative Witches will insist is a Pentagram….
a Pentacle being strictly an Altar item of the same name.

8x10 Acrylic on canvas

"Phoenix reborn"

The Phoenix is a mythical bird and benevolent fire spirit, a fabulous bird that rises from the ashes of its former life; it has various descriptions and features in many cultures and religions, even in Christianity where it sometimes symbolizes the resurrection. 

To Pagans and many others that all who die will be reborn, and is so revered the world throughout, a popular name for pubs in Britain among many other applications.

The depiction here is from my own imagination, there are reasons in me for it, but an emphasis on fire and its ability to possible renewal by clearing the old, and indeed forging the new is utilized.


24 x 18 inch Acrylic on canvas

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A Sea Witch stands at a cliffs edge commanding the Elements in a Storm she’s raised, the three knotted Wind Rope untied in her hand.

Did Sea Witches raise and maintain the Storm that destroyed the Armada?

Now that would be telling…………..
 
Acrylic on canvas 3 ft x 2ft 

'Storm Witch '

A Sea Witch stands at a cliffs edge, charging her sword with the power of a storm raised, I for one rush to put outside my Athame (Athames are the witches blade) at the first sign of a thunder storm too.

Sea Witches traditionally work with weather, wind, moon and tide, nor do they fear the dark side of Witchcraft, it is not for ‘fluffy Bunnies’!

Many of them are beachcombers also, many of their tools improvised from the gifts of the sea, driftwood and sea shells o name but some, their services were sought after by sailors and fishermen of old, we even raised the great storm that destroyed the Armada, after first disrupting the judgment of it’s leaders all the while Drake was in dereliction of his duty pursuing Spanish gold in the night!

 24 x 30 inch acrylic on canvas

Available  £350.00

old-page Harvesting the Power

 

'The Thunderbird Invoked'

A modern Witch has summoned the North American Thunderbird to Irelands unique Burren landscape, sheltering from the effects under the lee of Poulnabrone Dolmen. That her Medieval fore bares could not have known of this Legend reflects Wicca as the Old Religion in the New Age.

Acrylic on canvas 3 x 2 ft.

Morrigan the Goddess of War has arrived high over a nocturnal battle field illuminated by the lightning she traditionally brings with her

Acrylic on canvas 

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Raven at the Men-an-Tol

The Men-an-Tol is one of Britain's smallest Megalithic standing stone sites, but also one of the best known, set in the bleak Cornish landscape it's origins are uncertain, but it was probably an Iron age tomb of around 4,000 years ago, recent research shows it is also part of a stone circle..
The name Men-an-Tol is Cornish language for 'Holed Stone', it has in the past been also known as the 'Devil's eye', and 'Crick stone' because of it's reputation for curing backache.
Children with Rickets and Tuberculosis were for for centuries passed through it's hole three times naked and then through the grass three times anti-clockwise, or Widdershins. 
Some quarters say the place protects from witchcraft yet many visitors are Witches and Wiccans. 

16 x 20 inch acrylic on canvas.

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Crow Stones

A storytelling of Crow’s flocks at the Callanish standing stones, also known as Calanais on the Scotland’s Isle of Lewis.
The Megalithic site is older even older than Stonehenge, dating back to 3000BC.
If you like counting Crows this is a painting for you!

20 x 16 inch Acrylic on Canvas.

'Hunters Moon'

The Hunters Moon is the full moon that follows the Harvest Moon  usually the biggest and brightest of the year, and nearest Samhain.
Here an Owl glides silently over the standing stones of Callanish, or Calanais on the Isle of Lewis, in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, exploiting it’s light.
The Hunters Moon is also known by it’s Anglo-Saxon name of Blood Moon, as this was around the time surplus livestock would be slaughters before the onset of winter in times of old.
Although widely adopted by the English speaking world, Hunters Moon is really the Native American name.
 The Hunters Moon next occurs on November 2nd at 19.15 hrs GMT

Acrylic on canvas 10 x 14 in.

A Peregrine falcon flies in the bright light of the Sanguine Moon, otherwise known as Blood or Hunter’s moon. This is the moon following the Harvest moon and closest to the autumn equinox, it may really be just a gentler name for Blood moon, so named for its closeness to the third harvest of the year, the blood one of Samhain.

A Peregrine is no night hunter though, even though this is one of the brightest nights of the year, and what is Pagan about it, why paint it?

Now that association with Witchcraft stays secret!

24 x 12 inch Acrylic on canvas

'The Blood Moon

Blood Moon A Raven circles the standing stones at Callanish under the light of the full Blood Moon, the Anglo-Saxon name for what is better known in the Western world as Hunters Moon. It is called by a few the Sanguine Moon, it seems that this word that pertains to Blood Red is a sanitised name? Confusingly Luna eclipses are often referred to as Red or Blood moons as an eclipsed Moon will take on a reddish colour, but the true Blood moon is usually the years brightest and the name associates with the Blood Harvest at Samhain when in the past this was the third and last harvest of the year when surplus livestock would be killed prior to the onset of winter when they would otherwise cut into the likes of grain stocks. The Blood moon of 2009 falls on November 2nd at 19.15 hrs GMT

Acrylic on canvas 12 x 16 in

'Stonehenge in Red'

I don't think there's a Pagan Artist who hasn't painted Stonehenge at least once. This was painted onto wood salved from a theatre props companies skip, want not, waste not, it's decorated my wall for many years now and it's staying there!

Acrylic on wood  38 x 21 in.

 

The Megalithic ruins have stood on Salisbury plain for over 4,000 years.
The Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice attract thousands of Pagan and other visitors, here the low sun silhouettes the Trilithons in a scene that suggests the calm beyond a Summer Solstice.
 
3 x 2ft acrylic on canvas

 

Stonehenge  Sunset

A third painting joins what has now become a set, due to Britain’s Stone age Postal service destroying

 

 

 

‘Stonehenge in Red 2’ . To make things a little different a Stonehenge sunset rather than sunrise theme was chosen for this semi modern work of what is Britain’s contribution to the Seven wonders of the medieval world.

A third painting joins what has now become a set, due to Britain’s Stone age Postal service destroying‘Stonehenge in Red 2’ . To make things a little different a Stonehenge sunset rather than sunrise theme was chosen for this semi modern work of what is Britain’s contribution to the Seven wonders of the medieval world.

2 x 3 ft Acrylic on canvas

 

'Stonehenge in Gold'   

The ideal Summer Solstice is here portrayed, seen through the Sarson circle, a golden Sun rising behind the Heel Stone as it has done for  millennia, a sight the British weather will often mask!

Acrylic on canvas 2 x 2½ ft   £60.00

The Four Elements

I have been asked by a number of fellow Witches and Wiccan’s to produce sets of small paintings representing the four elements of Earth, Air, Water and Fire to decorate the quarters of their Magick circles or perhaps Temples.

The four elements have their own symbols as seen in the following paintings.

I have chosen some favourites to create a set of four here, and also placed one of the Witches  E cards I created from them here.

Each Element also represents a point of the compass, and also points on the Witches Pentagram where they are joined by a fifth, Aether (spirit).

They have many correspondences, of which opinions can differ, I have supplied some of the  most commonly used and better known.

All paintings here are sold; they are 8 x 8 inch acrylics on canvas. 

Element of Earth

 The element of Earth is illustrated by an ancient Oak, the figure in the background is the antlered Goddess Elen of the ways, put there by request.

Correspondences: North, Pentacle, Brown, Gnomes and Boreas.

Element of Air

 The power and mobility of the element of Air is illustrated with a tornado complete with lightning, the atmosphere is charged.

Correspondences: East, Athame, Sword, Yellow & White, Sylphs and Eurus.

Element of Fire

 The Element of Fire is illustrated by what could be a metal workers forge, whose patron deity is the Celtic fire Goddess Brighid.

Correspondences:  South, Wand, Red, Salamanders and the Notus.

Element of Water

It is a very feminine element; the fluctuations of the tides are caused by the pull of the Moon, its ruler. 

Correspondences: West, Chalice or Cup, Blue-Green, Undines, and Zephyrus. 

 The Element of Earth

Longman of Wilmington represents Earth in a set of Elemental paintings that bear the Druid’s symbol of Awen rather than the elemental symbol, the hill carving  has been on the slopes of Windover hill for centuries, it is considered sacred by Druids and Pagans generally who attend rituals there at eight Sabbats of the year  like Beltane and  Lughnasdh.

Correspondences: North, Pentacle, Brown, Gnomes and Boreas./

 

The Element of Air

A Tornado and Lightning represent Air, and the power she can muster!

Correspondences: East, Athame, Sword, Yellow & White, Sylphs and Eurus.

The Element of Fire

 Red hot coals of a blazing Hearth represent Fire.

 Correspondences: South,Wand, Red, Salamanders and Notus.

The Element of Water