Lithical Travels

I have a deep regard and awe for the Standing stones that mark the landscape, whether singly or in groups, rows and circles. A reminder of how our ancestors shaped not only the landscape of the countryside but their inner landscape of being too. Seeking connections and understandings through places of significance by ritual. Searching for insight and spirit. Ways to measure the skies and the events therein. Seeking concepts to describe what simply is. Perhaps these were even erected as a more permanent replacement to the sacred groves of trees that were hewn to cater for survival needs. That slippery slope to disconnect ones nature from the natural. For me these stones act as a way to focus on past or future. To allow a far seeing of my own depths of connection to my own nature. To discover the balance that can be found by being true to my innate nature. A calmness in solitude and acceptance.

Enspirited Hare

In a full moon- lit night sky stand two ancient stones. lunation creates halos in which is a simplified image of an enspirited Hare. Painted January 2023. Acrylic on stretched and boarded canvas. w20.2 cm x h25.3cm. £100.

Mystical and magical, the night allows a wandering and wondering

Nocturnal Shades 1.

A ring of 5 standing stones in a moonlit landscape, with deep shadows cast over the ground. Painted August 2021. Acrylic on stretched canvas. w40cm x h 30cm. £100

dawning or setting the sun sweeps across the landscape, creating shadows and forms that may mirror our inner feelings.

Deep the Shadow, Bright the Light

A bright and pale blue sunrise or sun set sky, with light cloud forms over a grassy plain. 5 standing stones cast deep shadows over the green sward.
Painted November 2021. Acrylic on stretched canvas, w 40 cm x h 30cm. £100.

This is my eeling of connection, through the natural and the Ancient structures erected in times past. their way or shaping understanding the natural world around them.

Auras of Lunated Connection.

In a wintered landscape stand three standing stones lit by a full moon and green auroraed sky. To the fore are four stalks of bedewed grass, with seed heads.
Painted in December 2021. Acrylic on stretched canvas. w 61 x h 61 cms. £500

There is a light beyond that which our human eyes can see, yet it can be felt and connected to.

Lunated Lithic Wisdom

A hand of 5 standing stones holding a spherical field in which there is a whitened Oak rooted in a pool of water. All set in a waxing gibbous moon lunated nightscape. Painted in March 2022. Acrylic on a 50 x 60cm stretched canvas.
£350

Is this a looking back or a looking forward? There is only now, yet there may be a yearning for past and future that distracts and denies the who of what we are now

Lithic Peregrinations

5 standing stones in a day light landscape, embracing a lens to a full moon winter scape of hills with 3 stones holding a view of a dawning over 5 stones and grasses. Painted in August 2021. Acrylic on a 60.5cm x 60.5cm side stapled stretched canvas.
£350

Bring a focus to where you are. that may take you to amazing places.

Lithical Lens.

2 Standing stones in a body of water. Between them a portal lens to a day lit landscape of open grassland. A solitary Silver Birch, all set in a moonlit scape of sky and water. Painted in March 2022. Acrylic on a 51cm x 76cm stretched canvas.
£350

Inspiration may strike at any time. be open to opportunities no matter how strange they may seem.

Purple Crystallising Strike.

A purple and green landscape with a copse of Birches holds 2 stones and a lightning struck lens. Watched by a waning moon. In the lens is a nightscape of hills and lake, lit by a waxing moon. Painted in January 2022. Acrylic on a 46 x 61cm canvas board.
£300

The Ancients crafted these places to shape understanding of theever changing, yet permanent celestial majesties in their view. They still inspire awe and wonder in their standing stone splendour.

Breath of Changing Permanence

A full moon lunated night sky with energetic cloud forms. A swathe of moonlit grassland containing 6 standing stones all casting shadows. these surround a bare tree that is an Oak, deeply rooted yet reaching skywards again casting a deep shadow.
Painted May 2022. Acrylic on stretched canvas, w 100cm x h 40cm. £600

gathering the memories of a summer to last the winter through.

Autumn Equinox Summer Energy Stash

An energetic moonlit dark sky with hills to the distance. 2 Standing stones erect in a body of reflected moon lit water. the stones have echoes of colour that are of summer skies and grassland. painted in August 2022. acrylic on stretched canvas, w50 x h 60 cm. £450

This painting is currently hanging in the D31 Gallery ''Winter' exhibition in Doncaster

This painting is currently on display on line in the Aether to Easel. 5th Feb to 4th May

This painting is currently on exhibition with the D31 Gallery, Doncaster.

This painting is currently in an online exhibition with Aether to Easel

This painting is currently on exhibition with D31 Gallery, Doncaster

This painting i currently on exhibition with the RCA in Conwy

This painting is currently on exhibition online with Aether to Easel.

HelenzArt 2021

Lithical Travels