Description
NEWGRANGE Watercolor Original Artwork
According to Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001, Newgrange is the oldest building in the entire world. This gigantic, mystical monument was over 5,000 years ago over an older edifice of wood in the Boyne Valley. Even today it holds the imagination with its portal light box tuned to the winter and summer solstices and its astounding and mysterious carvings of still undeciphered celestial symbols.
I have always found it so profoundly impressive and have been inside and out many times. It never ceases to amaze me and fill me with wonder.
ARTWORK DETAILS
These new watercolours are all unique and only painted to order.
Each work is on heavy 310gsm watercolour rag paper and hand painted in watercolour inks and paint, with the addition of some white gouache where I feel it adds depth.
Size is A3 16.5” x11.69”.
Poulnabrone Dolmen, County Clare, Newgrange County Meath, and Staigue Fort, County Kerry will be the first three in this new series.
anthony –
New Grange
The golden hill where long-forgotten kings
Keep lonely watch upon their feasting-floor
Is silent now, — the Dagda’s harp no more
Makes sun and moon move to its murmurous strings;
And never in the leafy star-led Springs
Will Caer and Aengus haunt the river shore,
For deep beneath an ogham-carven door
Dust dulls the dew-white wonder of their wings.
Yet one may linger loving the lost dream–
The magic of the heart that cannot die,
Although the Rood Destroy the quicken rods;
To him through earth and air and hollow stream
Wild music winds, as two swans wheeling cry
Above the cromlech of the vanished gods
Thomas Samual Jones, Jr (1882-1932)