Showing posts with label Celtic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Celtic. Show all posts
Monday, June 10, 2019

Hallstatt: A Village on the Lake

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Thursday, December 29, 2016

TBT: "The Sea-God Sailing"

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Throwback Thursday?  Here's a poem of mine from high school that I recently (re)discovered: THE SEA-GOD SAILING When the wind's ...
Wednesday, July 13, 2016

In the Footsteps of the Legions

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On Hadrian's Wall. I'd been looking forward to this moment for almost my whole life. As a boy, in my daydreams, I wou...
Friday, January 8, 2016

Bedside Reading

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I think I had Byron's Don Juan in my hand.
Friday, January 1, 2016

Ring: "Waves"

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A good-luck ring, I'm hoping. Classic artistry from the Irish metal-workers on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, CA. You can find...
Saturday, October 4, 2014

Rough Duty in Roman-Britain: A Good Read

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Saturday, November 2, 2013

Vercingetorix: Two Views

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Vercingetorix:  sculpture mix; sea-foam glaze, too thinly applied. Or, The Apple Man.
Sunday, October 27, 2013

New Mask: The Painted Man

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The Painted Man (Math-theow):  sculpture mix; denim, stormy blue, green, and transparent brown glazing, layered; leather strip.
Thursday, September 5, 2013

Something Other Than Repose

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Aside: note how the shiny black over the shino glazing results in that mottled/speckled glory.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Sea-Charms

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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Charming

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 Sculpture mix  charms and ornaments in progress.  The deer pattern is from a design by the wonderful Celtic artist Jen Delyth.  I...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Pig, In Progress

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Wet clay, the other day.
Saturday, September 22, 2012

Dunnett's Macbeth: Thorfinn of Orkney -- A Favorite Passage

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Here's a favorite passage from Dorothy Dunnett's King Hereafter, a novel about the historical Macbeth: Thorfinn the Mighty, Earl of ...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

Reprise: Fergus

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Fergus: stoneware; brown glazing, layered; copper wire.       --a Talking Head, as it were, in the Celtic tradition.
Sunday, September 9, 2012

A Celtic PIg

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Young Boar:  Navajo Wheel clay; brown glazing, layered.
Thursday, October 14, 2010

Must Be Dragons

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Didn't St. Patrick banish all the snakes from Ireland? So this Celtic design, borrowed from the Book of Kells , I believe, must be drag...
Friday, October 8, 2010

Three Dogs Running

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This is a favorite image, originally from the Book of Kells, as best I know. This piece is from the hand of Peter O'Loughlin, silversmit...
Monday, September 20, 2010

Passages: W. B. Yeats' Mythic Yearning

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Here are two of my favorite poems by William Butler Yeats, early and particularly Celtic poems. The Irish poet strums the mythic harpstring...
Saturday, September 18, 2010

The Blood Tells

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"One of the most shocking characteristics of the Celts for Classical commentators was that they were--at least in battle--head-hunters....