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Mused and Drank Sweet Wine

$850.00

18 x 24


Wood panel, rice paper, acrylic, charcoal, house paint

Black Frame


Inspired by The Madness of King Goll, W.B. Yeats (excerpt)


I sat and mused and drank sweet wine;

A herdsman came from inland valleys,

Crying, the pirates drove his swine

To fill their dark-beaked hollow galleys.

I called my battle-breaking men

And my loud brazen battle-cars

From rolling vale and rivery glen;

And under the blinking of the stars

Fell on the pirates by the deep,

And hurled them in the gulph of sleep:

These hands won many a torque of gold.

They will not hush, the leaves a-flutter round me, the beech leaves old.



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Gyres Run On

$300.00

6 x 8

Wood panel, rice paper, acrylic, house paint, charcoal


Black Frame


Inspired by Under Ben Bulben, W.B. Yeats (excerpt)


Gyres run on;

When that greater dream had gone  

Calvert and Wilson, Blake and Claude  

Prepared a rest for the people of God,  

Palmer's phrase, but after that

Confusion fell upon our thought.

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A Golden Bough

$300.00

5 x 7

Wood panel, rice paper, charcoal, acrylic, house paint


Inspired by Sailing to Byzantium by W.B. Yeats (excerpt)


Once out of nature I shall never take

My bodily form from any natural thing,

But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

Of hammered gold and gold enamelling

To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;

Or set upon a golden bough to sing

To lords and ladies of Byzantium

Of what is past, or passing, or to come.

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Artifice of Eternity

$300.00

6 x 8

Wood panel, rice paper, acrylic, charcoal, house paint


Inspired by Sailing to Byzantium by W.B. Yeats (excerpt)


O sages standing in God's holy fire

As in the gold mosaic of a wall,

Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,

And be the singing-masters of my soul.

Consume my heart away; sick with desire

And fastened to a dying animal

It knows not what it is; and gather me

Into the artifice of eternity.

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A Flourishing Hidden Tree

$350.00

12 x 12

Inspired by W.B. Yeats

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The Wild Fowl of the Air

$300.00

6 x 8

Wood panel, rice paper, charcoal, acrylic, house paint


Wood frame


Inspired by The Madness of King Goll, W.B. Yeats (excerpt)


I SAT on cushioned otter-skin:

My word was law from Ith to Emain,

And shook at Inver Amergin

The hearts of the world-troubling seamen,

And drove tumult and war away

From girl and boy and man and beast;

The fields grew fatter day by day,

The wild fowl of the air increased;

And every ancient Ollave said,

While he bent down his fading head.

"He drives away the Northern cold.'

They will not hush, the leaves a-flutter round me, the beech leaves old.

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Of Hammered Gold

$300.00

5 x 7


Wood panel, rice paper, charcoal, acrylic, house paint


Black frame


From Sailing to Byzantium by W.B. Yeats (excerpt)


Once out of nature I shall never take

My bodily form from any natural thing,

But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

Of hammered gold and gold enamelling

To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;

Or set upon a golden bough to sing

To lords and ladies of Byzantium

Of what is past, or passing, or to come.

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The Indifferent Beak

$300.00

6 x 6, framed/matted with glass


Wood panel, rice paper, acrylic, house paint, charcoal


Surprise element - patterns created with bubble wrap and bottom of a painted flip-flop


Inspired by Leda and the Swan, William Butler Yeats, excerpt:


Being so caught up,

So mastered by the brute blood of the air,

Did she put on his knowledge with his power

Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?

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Spiritus Mundi

$1,200.00

36 x 18

Wood panel, rice paper, charcoal, pastel, acrylic, house paint

Black wood frame


In W.B. Yeats's "The Second Coming," the Spiritus Mundi refers to a universal, spiritual world that is the source of collective symbols and memories, akin to Carl Jung's concept of the collective unconscious. It's a vast, spiritual realm where universal images and symbols originate, representing a collective psychic memory of humanity. Yeats believed this Spiritus Mundi inspired and informed poets and writers. 



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A Terrible Beauty is Born

$300.00

6 x 6, framed/matted with glass


Wood panel, rice paper, acrylic, house paint, charcoal


Inspired by Easter 1916, William Butler Yeats, excerpt:


I have met them at close of day   

Coming with vivid faces

From counter or desk among grey   

Eighteenth-century houses.

I have passed with a nod of the head   

Or polite meaningless words,   

Or have lingered awhile and said   

Polite meaningless words,

And thought before I had done   

Of a mocking tale or a gibe   

To please a companion

Around the fire at the club,   

Being certain that they and I   

But lived where motley is worn:   

All changed, changed utterly:   

A terrible beauty is born.

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Brute Blood of the Air

$280.00

5 x 5, framed/matted with glass

Wood panel, rice paper, acrylic, charcoal, house paint


Surprise element - pattern created from the bottom of a painted flip-flop


Inspired by Leda and the Swan, William Butler Yeats, excerpt:


Being so caught up,

So mastered by the brute blood of the air,

Did she put on his knowledge with his power

Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?

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The Feathered Glory

$300.00

6 x 6, framed/matted with glass

Wood panel, rice paper, acrylic, house paint


Black frame


Surprise element - pattern created with bubble wrap


Inspired by Leda and the Swan, William Butler Yeats, excerpt:


How can those terrified vague fingers push

The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?

And how can body, laid in that white rush,

But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?

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