|
Gift
Selections from Wild Goose Studios, County Cork,
Ireland
|
|
The following selection is
from The Wild Goose Studio in Ireland where the heritage of Celtic art
is combined with the contemporary vision of Celtic artists. The beauty
and quality of these handmade sculptures offer up the world of the imagination,
a world where the values lie not in the outer form but in feelings and
the inner spirit. The Wild Goose appeals to the mind and the heart as
well as to the eye. A write-up covering the symbolism and historical
background is included on the back of each piece.
The Wild Goose Studio artifacts
include sculpture, bas-reliefs, and statues, which have been cold-cast
by hand using techniques which capture every detail of the original
model. They have a thick skin of pure bronze, and are filled with a
clay resin. They can be left to age, or gently polished to retain their
natural shine.
All Prices In Canadian Dollars.
Shipping and Handling extra.
Purchasing
Information
|
|
|
Bird, Book of Kells
WG-134 Bronze 10 1/2" x 3 1/2"
$80.00
Birds travel freely
between heaven and earth, heavenly messangers, givers of omens,
possessors of secrets. Storks bring souls to earth, owls tell
secrets of night, doves and nightingales tell secrets of love,
eagles are birds of prophecy. Designed by Irish artist Kathleen
Smyth. "I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam
of the sea." From The White Birds by W.B. Yeats.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Celtic Creation Cross
WG-96 Bronze 5 1/2" x 5 1/2"
$65.00
The interweaving of
the Celtic spiral is a symbol of the dance of creation and, as
a cross, of creation centred spirituality which unites us with
nature, the cosmos and each other.
|
|
|
|
Triple-Spiral, New Grange
WG-117 Bronze Paper Weight 2" high
$35.00
Triple spiral from New
Grange, Co. Meath, 3000 B.C.
(symbol of three: male,
female, child; love, birth, death; the flowing continuity of life).
|
|
|
|
|
|
Celtic Circle and Cross
WG-92 Bronze 6" diameter
$60.00
In this symbol sacred
time is celebrated. Sacred time encourages the union of opposites,
the still point in the circle, leading to the moment of synchronicity
where paradox slips mysteriously into wisdom.
Circle: continuous,
infinity, but empty.
Circle and cross: plentitude,
security, joy, self.
Vertical Line: yang,
masculine, logos.
Horizontal Line: yin,
feminine, eros.
Cross: conjunction,
meeting, marriage of opposites.
|
|
|
|
Dove of Peace
WG-41: Bronze 5" x 5 1/2"
$55.00
This deceptively simple
design is from a stone carving by Ken Thompson.
The Dove of Peace,
for the Celts an image of love and harmony, as well as a symbol
of innocence and marital love, of Christ and Mary. The dove conquers
the lion (eros) with caresses.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gallen Priory Cross
WG-32: Cast Iron. 6 1/2" high
$60.00
Write-up: Humankind
wrestles with energy of the unconscious while standing on reason.
- at centre a sun spiral = celtic symbol life source. - uncoiling
serpents = our unconscious dreams, archtypes and instincts. -
4 heads = Adam, Eve, Cain, Able, man & woman, good & evil,
reason & imagination, etc. opposites, giving energy, and opening
us to change and so to transformation. - linear pattern at base
= logos, words, reason. - circular spiral joining the heads =
harmony and love.
|
|
|
|
Celtic Love Cross
WG#97: Bronze. Resin Casted actual size: 5 1/2" x 5 1/2"
$60.00
The day will come when,
after mastering the ether, the winds, the tides, gravity, we shall
master the energies of love ... and then, for the second time
in the history of the world, man will have made fire his servant.
Love alone is capable
of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fullfil
them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest
in themselves.
Love leads man and woman,
one through the other, to a higher possession of their being.
|

|
|
|
|

|
Céad Mile Fáilte (Pronounced:
Kayed Meluh Fawltyuh)
WG#18: Bronze. Resin Casted actual size: 5 1/2" x 3 1/8"
$40.00
Céad Mile Fáilte
is a traditional Gaelic greeting meaning " A hundred Thousand
welcomes"
|
|
|
Bidden or not bidden, God is present
WG#115.1:
Bronze. Resin Casted actual size: 71/2" x
91/2"
$100.00
Carl Jung, the eminent psychologist (1875-1961)
had this carved in Latin over the front door of his Zurich home
to remind tose who entered that 'Awe of the Lord is the beinning
of wisdom'(psalms 111.10). Jung came across it when studying Erasmus,
the Renaissance scholar and humanist.
|
|
|
|
|
Vocatus atque nnon vocatus, Deus aderit
WG#115.2: Bronze. Resin Casted actual size: 9 1/2" x 7"
$95.00
The Latin original of
'Bidden or not Bidden, God is Present' which Carl Jung
had carved over his front door and on his tombstone.
|
|
|
Celtic Cross and Peace Prayer
WG#127: Bronze. Resin Casted actual diameter: 6.5"
$60.00
"Lead me from death to life from falsehood to
truth. Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust. Lead me
from hate to love, from war to peace. Let peace fill our hearts
our world, our universe." This prayor is said at noon by people
of many faiths.
|
|
|
|
|
Cross of Endings and Beginnings
WG#150: Bronze. Resin Casted actual size: 9 1/2" x 7"
$55.00
Change is the substance of life. This cross marks the need to accept
endings, because only then can the unlookedfor begin.
|
|
|
Claddagh Ring (emblem)
WG#182: Bronze. Resin Casted actual size: 4.5"
x 3"
$40.00
A powerful symbol of love and friendship. The union of the hands
(physical) and the heart (romantic and mystical) is crowned to mark
the regal and sacred aspect of the bond
|
|
|
|
|
Round Celtic Cross
WG#39: Bronze. Resin Casted actual diameter: 4 1/2"
$40.00
This simple interlaced
spiral is based on a 9th century carving from the great moastic
centre at Colonmacnois.
|
|
|
Tree Cross
WG#90: Bronze. Resin Casted actual size: 8"
x 9 1/2"
$55.00
This brings together two of our most ancient symnols. Each uniting
pairs of opposites: the treee unites earth with heaven; the cross
unites the masculine trunk with the horizontal feminine branches.
|
|
|
|
|
Glendalough Celtic Cross
WG#91: Bronze. Resin Casted actual size: 6" x 3 1/2"
$55.00
One of the most beautiful carvings from St. Kevin's church, Glendalough. |
|