Writing notes every night until the Home Studio tour: Tomorrow I have computer work to do...typing up all the Irish poems and legends which accompany my paintings for the Pacific Grove Art Center Exhibit opening early September. I also need to choose a painting to be in the Habitat for the Arts Exhibit in Seaside which goes up in early September. I would like to do Molly Bloom or a painting I did of Bridey years ago, from a photograph, but they are both larger than the size limit. I will check tomorrow to see if they may make an exception, which they indicated was possible. I usually paint pretty large. Until this past year. I was traveling to Oregon a lot and very focused on what was happening up there, with my sister. For some reason I began to paint much smaller. I could finish a painting even though I was often coming or going, or could be suddenly interrupted. I can see there is such a somberness to them in a way however; they are a real witness of the whole family's year of 'goodbyes'. Goodbyes for now that is. Goodnight ,not-a-blog.
In pools among the rushes
That scarce could bathe a star,
We seek for slumbering trout
And whispering in their ears
Give them unquiet dreams;
Leaning softly out
From ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams.
from the Stolen Child
WB Yeats
dimensions: 40x30"
title: Unquiet Dreams of Trout
medium: acrylic and collage on canvas
That scarce could bathe a star,
We seek for slumbering trout
And whispering in their ears
Give them unquiet dreams;
Leaning softly out
From ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams.
from the Stolen Child
WB Yeats
dimensions: 40x30"
title: Unquiet Dreams of Trout
medium: acrylic and collage on canvas
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 20x20"
Title: Spring Flooding on the Carmel River
Garland Ranch Park, 2018
Dimensions: 20x20"
Title: Spring Flooding on the Carmel River
Garland Ranch Park, 2018
(see below)
The Hare
dimensions: 20x24"
Acrylic on canvas
(Carmel River Series)
December 2017
"And one day I was out by the wood, and I saw two hares sitting by the wall, and the minute I saw them I knew well who they were."
~Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland
{Lady Gregory}
The Hare
dimensions: 20x24"
Acrylic on canvas
(Carmel River Series)
December 2017
"And one day I was out by the wood, and I saw two hares sitting by the wall, and the minute I saw them I knew well who they were."
~Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland
{Lady Gregory}
"I have heard the pigeons of the Seven Woods
Make their faint thunder, and the garden bees
Hum in the lime tree flowers; and put away
the unavailing outcries and the old bitterness
That empty the heart. I have forgot awhile Tara uprooted, and new commonness
Upon the throne and crying about in the streets".........
excerpt from In The Seven Woods
W. B. Yeats
August 1902
Make their faint thunder, and the garden bees
Hum in the lime tree flowers; and put away
the unavailing outcries and the old bitterness
That empty the heart. I have forgot awhile Tara uprooted, and new commonness
Upon the throne and crying about in the streets".........
excerpt from In The Seven Woods
W. B. Yeats
August 1902
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Medium: acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:20x24" {a painting of the Carmel river} Date: Nov., 2017 "Lights along Yeat's river road" "I fell one night some fifteen years ago, into what seemed the power of faery. I had gone----to pick stories out of an old countryman; and we were coming home talking over what he and told us. It was dark and.............." The Celtic Twilight ~ W. B. Yeats |
(see below)
{Carmel River...Garland Ranch Park}
......."where Sphinxes and Chimaeras sit open-eyed and where there are always murmurings and whisperings. I cannot think that what we saw was an imagination of the waking mind. We had come under some trees that made the road very dark, when the girl saw a bright light moving slowly across the road. Her brother and myself saw nothing, and did not see anything until we had walked for about half-an-hour along the edge of the river, and down a narrow lane to some fields..."
~W. B. Yeats
The Celtic Twilight
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The Brownies (see below) Acrylic on canvas |
"Wherefore in this same age, they are sometimes heard to bake bread, strike hammers, and do such like services---and in some places as yet, enter houses after all are at rest and set the kitchens in order, cleansing all the vessels. such go under the names of Brownies."
the Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies
- Robert Kirk ( 1641-1692)
the Fairy Dog
30x24"
Acrylic on Canvas
In the course of another conversation he pointed to a rocky knoll in a field not far from his home and said, "I saw a dog with a white ring around his neck by that hill there, and the oldest men round Galway have seen him too, for he has been here for one hundred years or more. He is a dog of the good people and only appears at certain hours of the night."
- the Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries
W.Y. Evans Wentz
30x24"
Acrylic on Canvas
In the course of another conversation he pointed to a rocky knoll in a field not far from his home and said, "I saw a dog with a white ring around his neck by that hill there, and the oldest men round Galway have seen him too, for he has been here for one hundred years or more. He is a dog of the good people and only appears at certain hours of the night."
- the Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries
W.Y. Evans Wentz
owned by family of Elizabeth Wrightman
Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 36x24"
Mission Trail Park, Carmel
May 2017
Dimensions: 36x24"
Mission Trail Park, Carmel
May 2017
now seen at Sargent House, Salinas, CA
summer 2018
please join Elizabeth and the other artists at the Reception June 24, 3:00pm
summer 2018
please join Elizabeth and the other artists at the Reception June 24, 3:00pm
Mallards Househunting after Flood on the Carmel River, 2017
acrylic on canvas
March, 2017
I met these 2 mallards during the flood this Spring in California. They were on a pile of brush one day on the Carmel River at Garland Park. That river was easily 10 times its usual width. {They were quite safe though, and seemingly immensely happy.}
Dimensions: 24x30"
drawn from thickets at the Frog Pond Wetlands
Seaside, Ca
there is a mallard pair there now with 6 ducklings {May}
February, 2017
How to Leave Roanoke
(title derived from a dream)
dimensions: 36x36"
Acrylic on Canvas
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Yggdrasil
48"x36"
Acrylic on canvas
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Please see more about this canvas {below} under "Ulysses". { Bloom's daughter dreams about a horse whose 'name had been Joseph', to whom she had offered a glass of lemonade.......}5/16
medium: acrylic and collage on canvas
Title: Milly's Dream
dimensions: 20"x24"
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{please see more about me [this canvas] under the heading......... 'Ulysses'}
4/16
dimensions: 24"x30"
the dragon is part of the James Joyce series, from Ulysses____________________________________________________________________________________________
medium: Acrylic on canvas. May now be seen, with 3 other of my paintings at Sargent House, (ring doorbell) Salinas, CA. Artist Reception June 24, 2018.......3:00pm
dimensions: 48x36"
title: Grooming: 10:00 a.m./August 17 at Pt. Lobos {see below}
This painting was done by sketching the pelicans using binoculars. I had never done that before! I was able to watch them for so long that it worked out really well and was a lot of fun. I went back one more time just to draw the ocean. In between the 2 visits I went and bought myself a really good pair of binoculars and it was so enjoyable. I am not a plein air artist. I don't go with canvas and paints, water, brushes, rags, etc. and work outdoors, but I always paint from animals or foliage I have seen on hikes primarily in and around Carmel.
dimensions: 48x36"
title: Grooming: 10:00 a.m./August 17 at Pt. Lobos {see below}
This painting was done by sketching the pelicans using binoculars. I had never done that before! I was able to watch them for so long that it worked out really well and was a lot of fun. I went back one more time just to draw the ocean. In between the 2 visits I went and bought myself a really good pair of binoculars and it was so enjoyable. I am not a plein air artist. I don't go with canvas and paints, water, brushes, rags, etc. and work outdoors, but I always paint from animals or foliage I have seen on hikes primarily in and around Carmel.
Grooming: 10:00 a.m. august 17 at Pt. Lobos
entered in call for artists to have greeting cards made of Pt. Lobos
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the Moorfowl
June, 2015
Dimensions:36x36"
medium: Acrylic on canvas
{drawing of woods from Mission Trail
Carmel, CA}
I passed along the water's edge below the humid trees,
My spirit rocked in evening light, the rushes round my knees,
My spirit rocked in sleep and sighs; and saw the moorfowl pace
All dripping on a grassy slope, and saw them cease to chase
Each other round in circles, and heard the eldest speak:
Who holds the world between His bill and made us strong or weak
Is an undying moorfowl, and He lives beyond the sky.
The rains are from His dripping wing, the moonbeams from His eye.
~excerpt from the Indian Upon God
WB Yeats
June, 2015
Dimensions:36x36"
medium: Acrylic on canvas
{drawing of woods from Mission Trail
Carmel, CA}
I passed along the water's edge below the humid trees,
My spirit rocked in evening light, the rushes round my knees,
My spirit rocked in sleep and sighs; and saw the moorfowl pace
All dripping on a grassy slope, and saw them cease to chase
Each other round in circles, and heard the eldest speak:
Who holds the world between His bill and made us strong or weak
Is an undying moorfowl, and He lives beyond the sky.
The rains are from His dripping wing, the moonbeams from His eye.
~excerpt from the Indian Upon God
WB Yeats
detail only shown here
~Donation by artist to Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula
2016
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The painting is very small, relatively, and a collage. It is from Field Work, by Seamus Heaney.
September Song {from the Glanmore Sonnets}
title: Our Dog
acrylic and collage on canvas
dimensions: 15x20"
In the middle of the way
under the wet of late September
the ash tree flails,
our dog is tearing earth beside the house.
[however in the painting there is neither a flailing ash tree nor is the dog digging a hole by the house, still....]
In rising ditches the fern subsides.
Rain-logged berries and stones
are rained upon, acorns
shine from grassy verges every morning.
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nGetal the Reed
acrylic and collage on canvas
36x36"
4/17/15
the Frog Pond Wetlands Preserve
Seaside, CA
sold to private collector
"Pray at moments of need,
or pray as a love spell deed;
Learning that we have to receive
all that is sent by nGetal the Reed."
~from nGetal the Reed;
Bathing in the Fae's Breath
Boladh na Sioga within the forests
by Woodland Bard
or pray as a love spell deed;
Learning that we have to receive
all that is sent by nGetal the Reed."
~from nGetal the Reed;
Bathing in the Fae's Breath
Boladh na Sioga within the forests
by Woodland Bard
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the Wolf and the Wonderful Fairy Cow
"But when he arrived home and looked over the yard and the stable and the field, there was no sign nor sight of the cows. So he grew very sad and dispirited. But just then he espied in the field three of the most beautiful and strange cows he had ever set eyes on.-----there stood a young, black wolf watching. Then Connor knew that his friend the wolf had kept his word. So he let the cows back into the field and there they remained and grew to be the finest in the whole country, and their descendants are flourishing to this day---"
the Edge of the World
~John Lowings
"But when he arrived home and looked over the yard and the stable and the field, there was no sign nor sight of the cows. So he grew very sad and dispirited. But just then he espied in the field three of the most beautiful and strange cows he had ever set eyes on.-----there stood a young, black wolf watching. Then Connor knew that his friend the wolf had kept his word. So he let the cows back into the field and there they remained and grew to be the finest in the whole country, and their descendants are flourishing to this day---"
the Edge of the World
~John Lowings
"This boy here saw a horse at one time out in the sea, a grey one swimming about. And there were three men from the north island caught a horse in their nets one night when they were fishing for mackerel, but they let it go; it would have broke the boat to bits if they had brought it in, and anyhow they thought it was best to leave it. ---and between the islands of Aran they can often see the horses galloping about at the bottom....."
{as told to Lady Gregory ,
~Visions and Beliefs of Western Ireland}
Title: Between the Islands of Aran
acrylic on canvas 36x48"
sold to private collector
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- "Every time they landed in the district," writes Seamus Heaney of the 'gypsies', "there was an extra-ness in the air, as if a gate had been left open in the usual life, as if something might get in or get out."
~District and Circle
Seamus Heaney
a Gate Left Open in the Usual Life
acrylic on canvas
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36x48"
Opening June 24, 3:00pm
"O that we were together,
and my body feathered too;
In light and darkness would I wander
With you forevermore!"
~from 9th c. Irish prose/poetry piece about King Suibne spoken by Eorann to Suibne
36"x48"
Acrylics on canvas
Eorann and Suibne
sold,
at exhibit Echoes of Play and Peace, Pacific Grove Art Center
sold to private collector
and my body feathered too;
In light and darkness would I wander
With you forevermore!"
~from 9th c. Irish prose/poetry piece about King Suibne spoken by Eorann to Suibne
36"x48"
Acrylics on canvas
Eorann and Suibne
sold,
at exhibit Echoes of Play and Peace, Pacific Grove Art Center
sold to private collector
Pangur Ban (written by a student of the Monastery of Carinthia on a copy of St. Paul's Epistles around the close of the eighth century, and found in the margins of his copy)
36x48"
acrylic and collage on canvas
Painting donated to Sunset Center Marjorie Evens gallery, by request for their first annual fundraising auction 2016*
model for Pangur is John boy, my sister's cat in Ashland, Oregon, whom my sister states does not have red and green stripes. ( Cats get red and green stripes when the painter is an expressionist.)
*now in private collection in Philadelphia, or soon to arrive there.......6/16
dedicated to the Irish monks who copied and translated tirelessly, preserving many works of classical literature through centuries of burning libraries, villages, fields, human folk, livestock and centers of culture. Look up Pangur Ban's poem on line.
Elizabeth@wrightman.us (831)622-9770
"I will give thee a dog which I got in Ireland. He is huge of limb and a follower equal to an able man. Morover he hath a man's wit and will bark at thine enemies but never at thine friends. And he will see by each man's face whether he be ill or well disposed to thee. And he will lay down his life for thee."
(~from the Icelandic Saga of Nial)
Title: Bran the Fairy Dog
acrylic and collage on canvas
48x36"
sold to private collector
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[...a declaration against the transporting of "Wolfedogges" dated Kilkenny, April 27, 1652]
"Forasmuch as we are credibly informed that wolves do much increase and destroy many cattle in several parts of this dominion, and that some of the enemy's party who have laid down their arms and have liberty to go beyond the seas, and others do attempt to carry away several such great dogges as are commonly called Wolfe Dogges, whereby the breed of them which are useful for destroying wolves would, if not prevented speedily suffer decay, these are therefore to prohibit all persons whatsoever from exporting any of the said dogges out of this dominion."
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(~from the Icelandic Saga of Nial)
Title: Bran the Fairy Dog
acrylic and collage on canvas
48x36"
sold to private collector
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[...a declaration against the transporting of "Wolfedogges" dated Kilkenny, April 27, 1652]
"Forasmuch as we are credibly informed that wolves do much increase and destroy many cattle in several parts of this dominion, and that some of the enemy's party who have laid down their arms and have liberty to go beyond the seas, and others do attempt to carry away several such great dogges as are commonly called Wolfe Dogges, whereby the breed of them which are useful for destroying wolves would, if not prevented speedily suffer decay, these are therefore to prohibit all persons whatsoever from exporting any of the said dogges out of this dominion."
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the Thicket
acrylic on canvas 48x36"
-from the Irish poem King and Hermit
- 10th c.
privately owned
Ashland,Oregon
2 giclee prints in existence
acrylic on canvas 48x36"
-from the Irish poem King and Hermit
- 10th c.
privately owned
Ashland,Oregon
2 giclee prints in existence
the Blackbird of Belfast Loch*
The Little bird has whistled from the tip of his bright yellow beak;
the blackbird
from a bough laden with yellow blossom has tossed a cry over Belfast Lough.
~anon. c. 800
Int en bec ro leic feit
do rind guip glanbuidi; fo-cheird faid os Loch Laig lon do chra
sold to private collector
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Icon: A Tendency to Entertain Archangels
dimensions:36x48"
meduim: acrylic,collage,mixed media on canvas
Luke 1:26-31
{Annunciation}
sold
dimensions:36x48"
meduim: acrylic,collage,mixed media on canvas
Luke 1:26-31
{Annunciation}
sold
---for many years I painted what seemed to be icons....large paintings of animals and/or people and often in a rather frontal pose; I am strongly influenced by patterns of folk art and by primitive art. These were somewhat majestic and had a strong sense of presence and conveyed a strong mood as well as being very colorful.
dimensions:24x26"
media: mixed media on clayboard
2/11
Woman with tea
{now in private collection
~on loan to artist through end of exhibit at Mercy Retreat Center, Burlingame, CA
until New Years Eve 2013}
media: mixed media on clayboard
2/11
Woman with tea
{now in private collection
~on loan to artist through end of exhibit at Mercy Retreat Center, Burlingame, CA
until New Years Eve 2013}
Illustration inspired by the
manuscript,The Book of Lambspring; a rare Hermetic tract
"The unicorn will be the spirit at all times. The deer desires no other name but that of the soul...He that knows how to tame and master them by art, to couple them together, and to lead them in and out of the forest,............."
- Robert Graves
the White Goddess
36x48"
acrylic on canvas
sold
manuscript,The Book of Lambspring; a rare Hermetic tract
"The unicorn will be the spirit at all times. The deer desires no other name but that of the soul...He that knows how to tame and master them by art, to couple them together, and to lead them in and out of the forest,............."
- Robert Graves
the White Goddess
36x48"
acrylic on canvas
sold
He lived there in the unsayable lights
He saw the fuchsia in a drizzling noon,
The elderflower at dusk like a risen moon
And green fields greying on the windswept heights
-------His story quickened us, a wild white goose
Heard after dark above the drifted house.
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~excerpt from Seamus Heaney,
the Glanmore Sonnets VI
the Elderflower at Dusk Like a Risen Moon
36x48"
acrylic on canvas
sold to private collector
Luke 19:30-34
medium: fibre arts
dimensions framed:15"x19"
Title: If anyone asks you why you are untying it you shall say, the master has need of it
{Palm Sunday}
medium: fibre arts
dimensions framed:15"x19"
Title: If anyone asks you why you are untying it you shall say, the master has need of it
{Palm Sunday}
Many of my collages contain whole pages and/or sections of dream diaries, my journals, prayers, and lists of things to do in my daily life. In this way I can keep, in some form,these parts of the unconscious with me. I destroy every journal I write as soon as the notebook is filled, or place them in paintings or in some cases bury them under stairs or behind chimneys, etc. in houses or on grounds where I have lived in.....
{Palm Sunday}
Luke 19:35
medium: fibre arts
dimensions: 13x13" framed
"And they brought it to Jesus and throwing their garments upon the colt, they set Jesus upon it"
sold
in private collection
Luke 19:35
medium: fibre arts
dimensions: 13x13" framed
"And they brought it to Jesus and throwing their garments upon the colt, they set Jesus upon it"
sold
in private collection
media: fibre arts
dimensions: 15x19" framed
John 14:27
Peace I Leave With You
Sold
in private collection
dimensions: 15x19" framed
John 14:27
Peace I Leave With You
Sold
in private collection
Spectral Fox
colored pencil on paper
most recently shown at Mercy Retreat Center in Burlingame, CA
I have a history, and a lot of interest in fibre arts and in collage. I used to do tapestry weaving. I had to return to painting and drawing though because I am a draw-er. I can draw , and have since early childhood, and like to do so very much and I missed the exercise of this in my art when I was weaving exclusively. I was happy with parts of it, raising my own sheep, (on the baby bottle!) and spinning the wool...teaching spinning and weaving in Oregon. But I am back where I began. My undergraduate degree is in Fine Arts with a painting emphasis.
Talking Across Earth
dimensions: 30x39"
medium:acrylic and collage on canvas
NFS
portrait of artist's daughter, Bridey
dimensions: 30x39"
medium:acrylic and collage on canvas
NFS
portrait of artist's daughter, Bridey
$2000 Many bulls
encompass me, strong bulls of Bashan surround me; they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion."
dimensions: 36x48"
media: acrylic and mixed media, collage
2/11 {see below} now in private collection
encompass me, strong bulls of Bashan surround me; they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion."
dimensions: 36x48"
media: acrylic and mixed media, collage
2/11 {see below} now in private collection
Icon of the Lilies of the Field
dimensions: 36x48"
medium:acrylic on canvas
Mt. 6:28,9
property of the Sisters of Mercy
Mercy Retreat Center, Burlingame, CA
"Because of the non-religious meaning of the term magic I prefer to call it numinous realism: a realism that depicts ordinary things, ordinary persons, ordinary events, but it is a numinous realism. It depicts them in a way that makes them strange, mysterious, laden with an ambiguous power. Much primitive art has this power." - Karl Rahner
What is it Like?
dimensions:30x40"
meduim: acrylic on canvas
{"the kingdom of heaven is like....."}
Luke 13:20
{now owned by a private owner and on loan to artist for exhibit at Mercy Retreat Center, Burlingame, CA until New Years Eve, 2013}
dimensions:30x40"
meduim: acrylic on canvas
{"the kingdom of heaven is like....."}
Luke 13:20
{now owned by a private owner and on loan to artist for exhibit at Mercy Retreat Center, Burlingame, CA until New Years Eve, 2013}
The Source of Uncreated Light
dimensions:24x30"
acrylic and collage on canvas
(shown in process )
Exodus 3:1-4
{the burning bush}
sold
going to Cincinnati New Years Eve!
6/2010
Jesus Dreams of holding the pale infant of an Aquatic Mammal and Sees a Fowl Whose Entire Life Was Lived in a Wire Cage {private collection}
dimensions: 25x36"
acrylic and collage on canvas board
Mark 4:35-38
1/2010
sold
in private collection
Boy With Hare
dimensions: 40x40"
medium: acrylic on canvas
NFS
dimensions: 40x40"
medium: acrylic on canvas
NFS
Holy Communion of the Streets
dimensions: 38x47"
medium: acrylic, mixed media,collage
{sold}
on loan to artist until completion of exhibit at Mercy Retreat Center, Burlingame, CA
Leo
dimensions:19x30"
medium:
watercolor on paper {private collection}
dimensions:19x30"
medium:
watercolor on paper {private collection}
Hansel and Gretel -medium: acrylic on paper
sold
-in private collection
Rumplestilskin
dimensions:28x22"
medium: acrylic on canvas board
dimensions:28x22"
medium: acrylic on canvas board
Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf
dimensions:21x17"
medium: acrylic on canvas board
sold
dimensions:21x17"
medium: acrylic on canvas board
sold
Sleeping Beauty
dimensions: 18x24"
medium: acrylic on canvas board
sold
in private collection
dimensions: 18x24"
medium: acrylic on canvas board
sold
in private collection
Call/Negation/Coercion/Sanctuary
Acrylic and collage on canvas
Dimensions:24"x30"
1/11
{Jonah and the whale}
sold
in private collection
Acrylic and collage on canvas
Dimensions:24"x30"
1/11
{Jonah and the whale}
sold
in private collection
Icon of Jesus with a Lamb
medium: acrylic on canvas
dimensions: 36x48"
private collection
medium: acrylic on canvas
dimensions: 36x48"
private collection
Icon of Jesus holding a sparrow
dimensions: 48x36"
medium: acrylic on canvas
private collection
Luke 12:6
medium: acrylic on canvas
private collection
Luke 12:6
Icon: The Parable of the Mustard Seed
medium: acrylic on canvas
dimensions: not documented
Matthew 13:31,32
private collection
medium: acrylic on canvas
dimensions: not documented
Matthew 13:31,32
private collection