The Green Man
15" x 30" Acrylic on Gallery Canvas
15" x 30" Acrylic on Gallery Canvas
The Green Man
15" x 30" Acrylic on Gallery Canvas
15" x 30" Acrylic on Gallery Canvas
The Green Man percolated in my subconscious mind for years. I'd even tried painting him a few times in the past, but was unsatisfied with everything I'd made. For years I regarded the idea as a failed effort.
After completing my dragons, I determined to try him again; to successfully render a tribute to this Nature Deity.
The need to make this painting a pair within this collection was very strong. As I worked the Green Man, I knew I needed to make a Mother Nature compliment for The Green Man within this series. And so I continued.
The Green Man is a pre-Christian Nature God worshipped in Pagan and Celtic circles for many centuries, before fading into obscurity with the coming of Christianity. He is still worshipped in Pagan circles today.
His image is found all over the many cathedrals of Europe, because the artisans that built them lived in communities which still worshiped the old nature religions. Christianity had not yet fully taken hold in many European cultures, and still had to share space with the old Gods.
Depicted most frequently as a man made of leaves and associated with the stag for virility, he is the personification of the male aspect of Nature in all of its forms.
After completing my dragons, I determined to try him again; to successfully render a tribute to this Nature Deity.
The need to make this painting a pair within this collection was very strong. As I worked the Green Man, I knew I needed to make a Mother Nature compliment for The Green Man within this series. And so I continued.
The Green Man is a pre-Christian Nature God worshipped in Pagan and Celtic circles for many centuries, before fading into obscurity with the coming of Christianity. He is still worshipped in Pagan circles today.
His image is found all over the many cathedrals of Europe, because the artisans that built them lived in communities which still worshiped the old nature religions. Christianity had not yet fully taken hold in many European cultures, and still had to share space with the old Gods.
Depicted most frequently as a man made of leaves and associated with the stag for virility, he is the personification of the male aspect of Nature in all of its forms.