Pan’s Introspection (SOLD)

zoeoakenspiritart — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 12:44:51 +0000

This one holds a presence of his own. I wanted to capture the deep, masculine fostering of the forest in a calming and beautiful way. He is ever present as we walk in the woodland, wanting us to walk deeper. The way is true and simple, like the way it was in the beginning, just walking, just being and understanding. This portrait captures that presence for me.

Apple Blossom and Hibiscus oil paintings

zoeoakenspiritart — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 12:20:33 +0000

These are a pair I did a while ago. They are both lovely textured one off original oil paintings protected with a silk varnish.
They are both the same measurements approx 8″x14″ Oils on board and come ready to be framed.

Lost Faun

zoeoakenspiritart — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 19:32:53 +0000

My intention is best summed up in this extract from ‘The Gentleman and the Faun’ ~ Encounters with Pan and the Elemental Kingdom by R Ogilvie Crombie (born 1899) ‘The contact between man and the nature spirits was lost, I think it had to be lost. Man had to develop his intellect. The more he developed his intellect, however, the more he lost his sensitivity, and of course reached a point where he began to regard such things as a belief in nature spirits or Pan or anything else as sheer superstition. Now the time has come and man must get back his sensitivity. There’s a lot of evidence coming from all over the world that in fact this is happening. Ever so many people in many different groups, the people who are working for the light, the people who are working for spiritual purposes, are beginning to develop more and more sensitivity. This doesn’t mean that man is going to lose his intellect. Man is going to redevelop what he lost, but he is going to be able to use it along with his intellect. this of course will make him a very powerful being. We know that man’s situation on the earth is in rather a precarious position, because man has such a feeling of his own superiority…this particular attitude leads ultimately to total disaster, because the point will come when nature will revolt, and all sorts of things could happen. The nature spirits are tolerant to a degree which is very difficult to understand. They’ll accept the most appalling outrages because they have infinate understanding, and know when man does something out of ignorance and not through intention. Under such circumstances they’ll show tolerance, they will not revolt, because they know that it is not according to God’s will that they do so. At the same time, there may come a point, if man goes too far, when they would say ‘All right, we are tired and fed up with mankind, We’ll go!’ One might say so what does it matter if a lot of hypothetical elves and gnomes leave the earth? You have to understand that the nature spirits give vitality to things that grow. you may carry on growing plants and may grow them very well but they would be lacking something and that is life force, therefore as food stuffs they would have not much value. This is the importance of trying to come into communication with them. Because in fact not only can the nature spirits help with plant growth, but they can supply this vital energy. One of their functions , besides building up the etheric counterpart of the trees and plants, is to transmute the energy which has been directed down from the devas into the type of energy that is right for the particular plant. This is the vital energy, which is the life energy.’

one – Oakenspirit Art

Pan’s Introspection (SOLD)

Apple Blossom and Hibiscus oil paintings

Lost Faun