This painting depicts Mary Magdalene as the priestess of the wild woods of southern France, where the Gnostic tradition says she sailed after the Crucifixion with several companions (the place where they landed becoming known as Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer). One Gnostic story tells of her often leaving her followers to spend time in the dark forests accompanied by wolves and other beasts, earning her the title ‘Mistress of Wild Things’. She is at one with nature and unafraid of the inner darkness of the forest of the soul. This painting was posed for by a priestess devoted to Mary Magdalene, who leads pilgrimages to Sainte-Baume, the mountain home of Magdalene’s church in Provence which can be seen in the picture beyond the poppy fields. Copyright Nic Phillips 2015. Acrylic on canvas (38in x 48in).
Marie de la Forêt
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Scarf/banner of my Lady of Montserrat has arrived in time for Occult Conference Glastonbury where I will be in the town hall all day next Saturday, come see my new stuffs! 😄
#BlackMadonna #ourladyofmontserrat #glastonburytown #glastonburyoccultconference #redbubble
Last February at the Occult Conference Glastonbury my painting ‘Wisdom-Sophia’ modelled on the High Priestess card of the tarot was purchased by the Museum of Witchcraft, Switzerland, for their divination room. Thank you Hexenmuseum Schweiz for sharing these photos of it in situ!
I’ll be at the Occult Conference again in two weeks time with plenty of new work 😊
#tarot #witchcraft #museumofwitchcraft #wisdomsophia #wisdom #sophia #highpriestess #thehighpriestess #hexenmuseum #hexenmuseumschweiz #glastonbury #occultconference #glastonburyoccultconference
Yesterday another of the original artworks from ‘Celtic Saints of Western Britain’ went to a new home 💙
Saint Senara is travelling to Portland, Maine, where she can gaze back across the Atlantic at her Cornish home!
#celticsaintsofwesternbritain #saintsenara #cornwall #zennor #mermaid #mermaidsaint #cornishsaints
It’s a snowy white St Brigid’s day here in Glastonbury! Happy Imbolc!
#brigid #brighid #stbrigid #stbrigidsday #imbolc #happyimbolc
The original artwork of my latest two paintings are available if anyone is interested, the Montserrat piece comes framed, like so!
#goddess #goddessart #blackmadonna #ourladyofmontserrat #glastonbury #avalon #sacredart #ladyofavalon
'Montserrat - Mountain Mother' Copyright Nic Phillips 2019
So having finished the recent large painting that took so long, I spent yesterday doing this small one that I had been waiting to start since my visit to Montserrat in November. This Black Madonna, Our Lady of Montserrat, is patron saint of Catalonia and sits in a monastery high up in the clouds. Rather than been sharp serrated rocks, the mountain reminded me of the smooth pads of fingers, so I drew the mountain as a great hand of the earth mother, cradling her image.
#blackmadonna #earthmother #mountainmother #montserrat #divinefeminine #goddess #virginmary #catalunya
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