Original piece 'An Cailleach'.

Oil painting on canvas. 

The legend and myth ‘An Cailleach’ is a significant figure in both Irish and Scottish mythology. She is known as the shaper of the land, walking along the land of Ireland shaping mountains, hills, rivers etc. ‘An Cailleach’ acts as an Irish mother nature and there are many legends told of her wisdom, but she was also feared for being so wise and as she is represent in some myths as the creator of storms and winter frost. She shapes and transitions through each season, coming into to spring as a young woman and forming into an older women coming into to winter which is possibly why she is seen or represented as a ‘hag’.