
Rising of the Cailleach
Original Painting
Medium: Acrylic with pallet knife on canvas board.
Size: 35.5” x 24”
Every Equinox the sun enters the chamber of 5,500 year old Cairn T at Loughcrew. This sacred place is associated with the ancient sovereignty Goddess, the Caileach who is also remembered in its name, Sliabh na Caillí, mountain of the Caileach. Here, I picture her manifesting in the light of that dawn, while in the foreground we see her Chair, from where it is said she gazed upon her landscape.