Matthew- the Man

The background is from the Book of Matthew, a modern Bible. I am enchanted with the Four Gospels from the various Celtic translations. In the celtic world each of the Gospels is associated with a certain icon, called an Evangelist. For the illiterate people the icon of a man would symbolize the Evangelist of Matthew. They refrenced the different perspectives of each of the Gospels. Matthew, the very Jewish Gospel, has the Evangelist of the Man.

I'm experiementing with a more simplistic celtic cross. So far I like the results I am getting. It is much easier to see the Cross itself in this design.

Piece is sold.

Ian

Ian is the Scottish form of the name John. The four Gospel's were translated into the Celtic languages during from the 600-1000AD. They were intricately illuminated, using many symbols such as the cross to echo the words laid out in the scripture. Each of the Gospels had their own pictoral and symbolic language that was used on a regular basis.

The background of this piece is the gospel of John. My son Ian was involved in the color choices to create this piece that bears his name.

Flame Allah

Finally! An arabic piece that actually involves Kufic! The blue calligraphy is actually English in the Kufic style, the name "Allah". Absolutely beautiful in it's own right.

I then cut out the name Allah in Arabic in a flame caligraphy design. The background is water colors in oranges and reds to reflect the caligraphy design.

Sorry for the delay

With all of my hard work towards the Art Opening at Java Jo'z on Nov 21st, I haven't taken the time to post pictures of all the work I've been doing.

I hope to remedy that soon. I have so many new, totally amazing pieces! And I finally have one that is truly Kufic!

Kells

Like the Book of Kells, this is an intricate work. Each interlace was created with crosses incorparated in the design. It was interesting how the cross formation from the purple inter posed on the green to form the central cross in the circle.

Lindisframe

This is the first celtic cross piece I did. I am thrilled with the way it turned out. I used a photograph as my background. Which worked out great. The colors of the photo are very rich. They show nicely against the colors of the cross itself. For this cross the pieces were cut from randomly created ink color. In other words I took a piece of paper, and randomly covered it wth a certain color, and then cut it to size for the project.

Celtic Cross

This is the very first Celtic Cross piece I ever did. Ton of fun! The background is a photograph. Close up of tree bark. I think that ties well into the Tree of Life icons of Celtic Christianity. But the real fun part is what I used to make up the ribbons. I actually used CD cover's. CD art! Cut them into the ribbons that creat the cross itself.

Piece not for sale