Consultation

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by Beverley Harper Tinsley

Original - Sold

Price

$175

Dimensions

12.000 x 17.500 inches

Title

Consultation

Artist

Beverley Harper Tinsley

Medium

Painting - Watercolor, Coffee Grounds And Graphite

Description

Consultation
This painting has been rendered in an unusual way, by first preparing the surface with coffee grounds, and then determining the image to portray, by the pattern left behind. It is much like reading tea leaves. Due to the delicate nature of the surface treatment, it has been treated with archival varnish, for protection of the image. Original is priced as matted and framed.
A mysterious and lovely young lady steps out of another time and place, consulting an aged crow, for the wisdom it has to offer. Earthy brown, and shades of lavender, gold and red give this watercolor painting warmth. What questions does the woman ask and with what message has the raven arrived?
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According to:
http://www.druidry.org/druid-way/teaching-and-practice/druid-animal-lore
The raven is seen as a messenger between the two worlds � this and the next � and for this reason we find ravens buried at the bottom of ancient ritual pits, such as at Danebury in Hampshire. These pits or shafts symbolised the connection between this world and the Otherworld, and the raven was seen as a messenger between the two. The early Irish Druids divined according to the flight and cries of birds, and in particular the raven, and seeing the raven as a bird of divination and prophecy was lodged so firmly in the folk imagination that as late as 1694 in Hertfordshire a raven was reported to have uttered a prophecy three times. Even today the association of the raven with prophecy and protection is openly fostered in the heart of London at the Tower. In the tale of Bran the Blessed, the prophetic god-king Bran (which means �Raven�) asks that his head be cut off and buried on the White Mount in London, facing the direction of France. As long as his head remained buried there it would protect the kingdom. The Tower of London was later built on the site of the White Mount, and the magical protective power of the buried head was symbolized by the presence of ravens, which are kept at the Tower to the present day to fulfil Bran�s prophecy and ensure the safety of the realm.

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August 20th, 2012