Wowzers, haven’t seen a celtic-derivative painting in quite some time. So give me a moment as I star hard and not confuse this for Germanic, Slavic and Sumerian script... Okay, that’s enough time and now let’s get to the post!

Firstly, the content itself: let’s just say that’s it’s a symbolic piece of artistry with the usage of symbols all around. However, I do get confused by the intent of the message that is trying to be conveyed here. I do understand that these are celtic runics, all mystical as we see the tree is imbued with blue matter coursing in the tree veins, that they are given a rustic but painted feel and that they are treated with great care to be painted. Yet I feel they are tossed there without being fine-tuned to the meaning of these runics. But I could be flabbergasting and forgetting the meaning of these runics. But how cool it could’ve been to see them engraved on stone or the trees! At least then the viewer would have to no reason to question the placement on the runics and dare question why these runes and what were the celts trying to convey. (Much like deciphering Sumerian script or Egyptian Heiroglyphs.)

Keeping much unto that track, the painting: I must say that this is a cool impasto painting, especially done in acrylic. (Which makes sense of the “rustic” feeling of the runics.) Withal, it feels like a religious impressionism / post impressionism piece here (maybe better to say expressionism here if it weren’t thematically jammed in with symbols as well). From the fact of the time period that the painting is focused on, to the fact we can see only the mystical forces at work, the runics as aforementioned and the tree which dictates celtic practice. In this sense, it makes sense of the unity and intepenetrations (or overlapping) of both the symbolic celtic symbols and the very real and magical tree. Belay my last if there’s a real art movement for this, but I could definitely see this painting being classified as magical realism along witb religious impressionism/postimpressionism.