Blodeuwedd

 There is an old Celtic myth behind this painting, about a young man cursed by his own mother that he may never marry a mortal woman. His uncle, out of pity, created for him a woman out of meadowsweet, oak and bloom flowers. However, "Blodeuwedd", meaning "Face of Flowers", did not love her husband, and eventually took a lover with whom she plotted to kill her husband. They succeeded, but for her 'treachery' of loving someone else she was transformed into an owl, doomed to fly during the night, cut off from the rest of bird-kind.

This painting won "Best of Show" at the Conversion XIV Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention.

• Blodeuwedd
• 17" x 19"
• Acrylic on watercolor paper
• SOLD

Copyright Cari Buziak, 1999.