30 x 40 cm
"Modern Cernunnos"
© Carola Parbott
Created: November/December 2008
50 x 60 cm
"The Morrigan"
© Carola Parbott
Created: 2008
The Celtic Morrigan (dark queen/phantom queen) is a threefold emanation of the life and destructive force in Irish mythology. Often she appears together with her two sisters in the shape of a crow flying across the battle field. The Morrigan is a shape shifter and may prophecy the future.
I have consciously played with the symbolic meaning of the numbers three and five here- three to symbolise the triple goddess, five being the number of Geburah, the number of change- as this is one of the main tasks of the Morrigan. The "red woman on a red battle field " I have depicted in a simple and calm way circling around black and red shades. Some coloured accents like her green eye or the Celtic torque thus receive greater emphasis.
Acrylic paint on canvas,
50 x 40 cm
"Invitation to the Otherworld"
© Carola Parbott
Created: 2008
This picture was finished on the 29.06.08 and shows an impression received during a pathworking. The apple is in Celtic mythology a strong symbol for the "Otherworld".
Acrylic paint and watercolour on canvas,
50 x 70 cm
"The Grale"
© Carola Parbott
Created: 2008
This one is dealing with the grale legend. Left the grale maidens, in the background a glimpse on Camelot.
As if by the hand of a ghost, the grale is presented to us, a gesture repeated by the first grale maiden.
Acrylic paint on canvas,
50 x 70 cm
"Moon Priestess"
© Carola Parbott
Created: 2008
Finished in 2008, this is a work concerning mythology and symbolism.
The moon-priestess seems to be in a dream or trance like state. In her hair you find intervowen a snake and the head of a wolf, both animals of the goddess- while the wolf has a strong link to the moon, the snake is a symbol of earth, sexual energy and regeneration.
Pencil on paper, "The Last Journey"
© Carola Parbott
Created: 2004
This drawing was created during my years abroad and deals with the topic of death in a symbolic way.
Penicl on paper, "Math and Goewin"
© Carola Parbott
Created: 2000/01
This drawing was also created during my years abroad and is the first bigger drawing in which I connected my interest in creativity and mythology. It is also the first work I personally liked that much that I kept it save!
The drawing depicts the Welsh myth of the king/magician Math and his footholder Goewin. To keep his powers and his authority, the feet of Math were not allowed to touch the gound but had to rest in the lap of a virgin.
