This is where it all started, for me; not everything, I mean, but this is the first way I hoped to sell my artwork through the World Wide Web.
In the late 1990's I was doing plenty of artwork with digital tools. Although it had been ten years or more since I'd been a painter it still bothered me that I no longer had originals. The work I did now seemed ephemeral when I compared it with the solid reality of the paintings I used to make.
It took a few more years to find a way to offer these prints. They've joined all my other merchandise now and I'm very happy that they're here.
are priced slightly higher.
Although this is recognizably what we call Celtic knotwork, the subject is of course Norse. If I were going to defend that I’d point out that prior to the seventh century, you were more likely to find patterns like knotwork on Saxon or Scandinavian artifacts than on Scottish or Irish; I might add that while these groups were culturally distinct there are many examples in their languages that are clearly related (like the Irish "Rig" vs. the Germanic "rik" for king, or the very words "Teuton" vs. "Tuatha" for words meaning tribe.
But I’d never mention that, because it could get me beaten up in so very many bars in so many parts of the world that I’d be a fool to talk about it.
So anyway. Here’s Mjolnir, Thor’s hammer, composed of intricate knotwork like an ancient piece of jewelry; including two serpents, who remind us of Jormungandr, the Midgard Serpent - whose fate was entwined with Thor’s.