Oil Pastel on archival paper

19"x24"

Note: Your fine art comes with a Certificate of Authenticity that includes my embossed art seal, pertinent information, and my suggestions for properly framing the art.

Anam Cara came to me as an inspiration by way of John O’Donohue: Irish poet, author, priest, and Hegelian philosopher. He was a native Irish speaker and author best known for popularising Celtic spirituality.

“If we become addicted to the external, our interiority will haunt us. We will become hungry with a hunger no image, person, or deed can still. To be wholesome, we must remain truthful to our vulnerable complexity. In order to keep our balance, we need to hold the interior and exterior, visible and invisible, known and unknown, temporal and eternal, ancient and new, together. No one else can undertake this task for you. You are the one and only threshold of an inner world. This wholesomeness is holiness. To be holy is to be natural, to befriend the worlds that come to balance in you. Behind the façade of image and distraction, each person is an artist in this primal and inescapable sense. Each one of us is doomed and privileged to be an inner artist who carries and shapes a unique world.”

—from Anam Cara: A book of Celtic Wisdom by John O’Donohue