PRODUCT DETAILS
- Limited Production – Made in Artist’s Studio
- Iron Framed Ceramic Kiln Fired Art Tile
- Black Iron Trivet Style Frame – for Inside Art Display Only
- Tile Size – Small – 4.25″, Medium – 6″, Large – 8″
- Frame Size – Small Frame – 6 3/4″ x 6 3/4″, Medium Frame – 8 3/4″ x 8 3/4″, Large Frame – 10 3/4″ x 10 3/4″
- Original Celtic Art by Jen Delyth ©
- We need approximately one week to make these:)
- Also available in Wood Frame, Mission Style frame, or Keep-sake Tile Box
ABOUT THIS DESIGN
There are many similar folk stories told of magical faerie women living below the lakes of Wales that thread back to ancient Celtic myth and belief. The Lady of the Lake of Llyn Y Fan Fach in Myddfai Carmarthenshire, is interwoven with a later twelfth century legend of the Physicians of Myddfai, whose skills as herbalists were renowned from up until the 18th Century in Wales. The Physicians of Myddfai – and some of their descendants – were said to be eminent healers, who inherited the magical healing powers of the Lady of the Lake.
In the Welsh folk tale, a faerie woman leaves her home beneath the Lake, and agrees to marry a young local man who is entranced with her beauty – bringing him a dowry of magical cattle – with the condition that he does not strike her three times without cause – or she will return to the waters of Llyn Y Fan Fach….
Art & Text by Jen Delyth ©2022
All artwork and text ©Jen Delyth
The Horse was loved and worshipped by the Celtic people. Horses decorate bronze, gold and silver objects as creatures of grace, intelligence and beauty. Horses also serve as solar symbols, embodying the sun’s divine qualities of strength and fertility – and golden Celtic Coins were often minted with images of the Horse, and solar symbols such as the wheel..
