Limited Edition

TREE OF LIFE - Leaves Edition
Original Artwork & Print by Jen Delyth ©1990

This new edition of Jen's Original Tree of Life is a print of the artwork collaged with handmade paper pressed with leaves. The texture of the leaves shows through the background, and comes through the design slightly, giving the Tree of Life deeper connection with the natural world.

Limited Edition of 350 (signed & numbered by artist) Matted 16"x 20" Heavy Watercolor 100% Rag Acid Free Paper with Hand-torn deckle edge	Tree of Life - Leaves Edition Tree of Life Leaves Edition Giclee Print $135.00

Close Up Detail Photograph - shows Fine Art Watercolor Paper Texture
& impression of leaves in image.

Tree of Life Britain was once covered in extensive oak forest, and reverence for Trees is at the heart of Celtic spirituality. Druids had their teaching centers in the midst of Oak groves, and the words for wood and wisdom are similar (Welsh gwydd and gwyddon). The Celtic Druids, priestesses and healer-women encoded their deep knowledge of trees and herbs into an ancient cryptic Tree alphabet - an Ogham ciper — Beth Luis-Nuin. The ‘Tree of Life’ is an esoteric philosophy common to many cultures and mythologies. The Ancients envisioned the entire cosmos in the form of a tree whose roots grow deep in the ground, branches reaching high into the heavens. Also known as the World Tree, the primal Mother Tree was regarded as all-nourishing, all-giving, involved in the creation of the universe and the origin of the first man and woman. In the border motif (from the Book of Kells — a medieval manuscript) the pot represents this Source, or Earth Womb, also symbolized as the Grail, or Cauldron of Regeneration in Celtic mythology. The interlacing branches symbolize the Celtic belief in the Continuity of Life.