Aspen Eadhadh Trees

Eadhadh — Sacred Grove series

Step into an aspen grove and the light does something it does nowhere else — it comes through sideways, low and gold, and the white trunks catch it and throw it back in colors you didn't know were in them. Blue, violet, rust, a struck match of orange. This painting holds that hour, the whole understory lit like stained glass, the trunks rising through it in a quiet crowd.

What most people don't see is that a grove like this is often a single living thing — one root system, one organism, sending up trunk after trunk across the ground. A grove only looks like many. Underneath, it's one. Stamped into the work is Eadhadh, the Ogham letter for aspen — the tree the old alphabet tied to courage, to standing in the open and holding.

11"×14" on canvas, framed in a hand-finished walnut floater frame. Ready to hang.

What is the land saying beneath what we see?