Description
The Spiral Path
The three-legged Triskele symbolizes the rotational symmetry of the Triple Spiral representing the spirals of the heavens, the eternal wheels within wheels spinning the stars and giving us life.
The earliest creation of this beautiful and iconic triple spiral motif dates back to the Neolithic era in Ireland where it can be seen at the entrance to the extraordinary tumulus -and oldest building the entire world -the world famous Newgrange sacred solar observatory in County Meath, a construction dating from 5,000 years ago.
I feel this symbol has transcended time from many thousands of years ago during the age of the ancient druids of Newgrange to the story of Saint Patrick and the shamrock explaining the Holy Trinity.
When I look into the triple spirals I see the thread that connects our present day to our known heritage and see the same stars that guided our ancestors guide us.
Were they not searching for the same answers to the same questions?
Print Details
Size A4 8″x11″(20x28cm) Hand colored in silver and gold, embossed, signed limited edition of 25.
Inspiration
When I was designing the limited edition silver enhanced print of my Saint Patrick drawing I added a little silver triskele -a rotating triple spiral design -to the base of the print by hand.
I really liked my version of a very familiar design through Irish history, found most notably on the Newgrange Kerbstone, and I quite liked the effect that the silver gave on the pearlescent paper. So I decided to make a singular version of it on a larger scale, this time A4 (11.25” x 8.75”) size and purely as a graphic but hand-drawn in silver, embossed with my own logo and signed and numbered in gold.
I added a few little dots on the center of the spirals in 18k gold for fun and the result is a unique print but limited in size to A4 rather than the larger A3 size I usually produce for hand enhanced limited editions.
I know I’m well known for Celtic figurative work but this logotype work is something I love from way back. Sshhssshhh don’t mention my Thin Lizzy logo… haha.
Anyway, hope you guys like it too.
-Jim FitzPatrick
Please allow an additional 15 days as each print is hand-colored on order
anthony (verified owner) –
The Spiral Path – “symbolizing the rotational symmetry of the Triple
Spiral” – The pathway upon which we, and all things, journey – perhaps in
some eternal gyrating cycle? “Birth, Life and Death – The labyrinth from
which there is no escape”
Beautifully hand-drawn and organic. Everybody should have one on their
wall. Feel very privileged to have had the opportunity to acquire one.
– Leyla