Barrow wight - Wren's Day
Wren's Day
$2000.00
Title: "Barrow Wight – Wren’s Day" A 20x20 inch oil painting steeped in atmosphere and quiet tension. In the background, a dense, mist-shrouded forest fades into a dreamlike haze, its skeletal trees reaching skyward like silent witnesses to forgotten time. Pale light filters weakly through the fog, lending the scene an otherworldly pallor.
The foreground is dominated by the weathered skull of a long-dead king, half-buried in moss and loam. His skeletal fingers, eerily intact, still clutch the rusting hilt of a once-mighty sword—a relic of a struggle long lost. The blade, dulled by time, emerges from the earth like a gravestone.
Perched defiantly before the skull stands a single wren. Though small, it radiates fierce presence, chest puffed and eyes alert. The bird’s plumage is rendered with exquisite detail, feathers catching the pale light with hints of warm brown and russet. It stands not as a mourner, but as a sentinel—life continuing in the shadow of decay. A symbol of resilience, or perhaps reclamation.
The juxtaposition of the fallen king and the living wren whispers a quiet story: of power that has passed, and nature that endures.
Barrow wight - Wren's Day - Original 20x20 canvas in cedar frame