Celtic Art

Original Paintings and Prints

Courtney Davis

Courtney Davis has published and illustrated more than 50 books about Celtic Art.

Now, for the first time, Courtney is offering the original paintings of all of these illustrations for sale. Over the next few months images of these paintings will be added to this site.

Cerridwen. The Moon Goddess

Size: 200 x 300mm
Medium: gouache
Price: £1,200
Inc VAT: £1,440

Cerridwen is the Moon Goddess; Great Mother; Grain Goddess; Goddess of Nature and Goddess of dark prophetic powers. She is the keeper of the cauldron of the underworld, in which inspiration and divine knowledge are brewed, the Bard Taliesin was said to be born of Cerridwen and to have drank the remaining three drops of the potent brew from her magic cauldron. This potion known as 'greal' (from which to word Grail probably came), was made from six plants for inspiration and knowledge. She is often equated with the famous Greek crone, Hecate, and to the Irish Badb.