The Illuminated Bride

The nude appears to emerge from the forest itself, structured through its colours and rhythms. The image is constructed from mosaic-like planes of colour contained within black outlines, like fragments of stained glass. According to Celtic folklore, in the ancient silence of the deep wood a sacred guardian holds the secret architecture of nature. For a fleeting moment she reveals herself before the wind stirs the branches and she dissolves once more into refractions of light. This painting is an acrylic on stretched canvas, finished with white edges and a gloss varnish, signed and ready to hang.