Emerald Vision Abstract Oil Painting Original painting:Original oil painting on canvas 18 x 24" I wanted to portray the

I wanted to portray the crone nature of one of these cemetery trees without falling into what for me is the trap of Naturalism

The original oil painting is 18 x 24"/46 x 61cm on cotton canvas with a 3/4"/2cm profile and it ready to frame

Above the witch is a face--perhaps of the target of this work

one of my favorite combinations

whether they are old factories or burial sites of toxic wastes

Emerald Vision Abstract Oil Painting Original painting:Original oil painting on canvas 18 x 24" I wanted to portray theBreaking through to higher realms how do you know when you are really ascending and when you are just kidding yourself? According to both Sufi and Hasidei Ashkenaz mysticism, you see something like sun gleams in green water. The mystic is advised not to be fooled if it looks like the water is rushing past it is really the mystic who is rising. The gleams are the sparks of the divine. This is referred to as the visio smaragdina in Sufism and a peculiar