Saint Gobnait of Ballyvourney Celtic sell original art

An original hand pulled block print, 8”x7” in black mat 10”x10”.

OPTIONS:
- b/w on handmade Nepal paper $65
- color, hand-painted $125
- color in worn wood black frame $255*

* Frame only available in U.S.

The Land of Milk & Honey: St Gobnait
(painted block print from the Anamchara Series)

St. Gobnait and the Place of Her Resurrection
By Christine Valters Paintner

On the tiny limestone island
an angel buzzes to Gobnait
in a dream, disrupts her plans,
sends her in search of nine white deer.

She wanders for miles across
sea and land until at last
they appear and rather than
running toward them

she falls gently to wet ground,
sits in silence as light crawls across sky,
lets their long legs approach
and their soft, curious noses surround her.

Breathing slowly, she slides back
onto grass and clover and knows
nothing surpasses this moment,
a heaven of hooves and dew.

Is there a place for each of us,
where we no longer yearn to be elsewhere?
Where our work is to simply soften,
wait, and pay close attention?

She sell smiles as bees gather eagerly
around her too, wings humming softly
as they collect essence of wildflowers,
transmuting labor into gold.