This painting is currently showing in the Courtyard Gallery, Midleton, Co. Cork. As always when I paint words come to me in the form of verse. This is what came to me when I was painting her.
You make your presence known
Whether you roar
like thunder in the waves
Or lap easily at the sea-shore
Whether you gush furiously
Along a fast flowing river
Carrying all before you
And in you
Or trickle gently
In a murmuring stream
For…
I hear you
Just as the blood
Flows in my veins
So too, do you
Flow in the veins
Of the Great Mother
Bringing with you
Life of immeasurable
Beauty