Undines

Acrylic, Oil and Col­ored Pen­cil on Hardboard

My first work with Lluna, my tallest col­lab­o­ra­tor to date. This is the most unusual oiece in the series so far, there’s so much in it. I had con­tem­plated call­ing it “Salmon, Apple, Moon” until my friend Shan­non sug­gested Undine- Accord­ing to a the­ory advanced by Paracel­sus, an Undine is a water nymph or water spirit, the ele­men­tal of water. They are usu­ally found in for­est pools and water­falls. They have beau­ti­ful voices, which are some­times heard over the sound of water. Accord­ing to some leg­ends, undines can­not get a soul unless they marry a man and bear him a child. This aspect has led them to be a pop­u­lar motif in roman­tic and tragic literature.

In 18^th cen­tury Scot­land, ondines were also referred to as the wraiths of water. Even then, they were not feared as other wraiths such as the kelpie.

It’s a per­fect fit.

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