Oak/Duir

9" x 12" original painting. Framed in a dark walnut, this Oak/Duir pays homage to the Celtic Ogham language. The celtic ogham lines that represent the oak can be found in the foreground. A small black bird is perched on the branches.

With frame, 11" x 14".

Duir — the Oak

In the Ogham, Duir is the oak: endurance, sovereignty, the door.

It is the tree that holds a family together — deep-rooted, slow to grow, built to outlast the hands that plant it. Where the other trees speak of passage and change, the oak speaks of what stays. It is the one you shelter under, the one you return to, the fixed point a whole grove is measured from.

Its very name carries a threshold — a door — the way a strong tree becomes the place a family gathers, and the doorway each generation passes through on its way to the next.

What, in your own line, is the oak — the thing that holds?