Description
‘Adar Rhiannon’ by Kirsten Schaap
Artist: Kirsten Schaap
Title: ‘Adar Rhiannon’
Medium: Pen and acrylic ink on hot pressed watercolour paper
Dimensions: 11.8″ x 11.8″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2024
About the Artwork:
In Welsh mythology, the Birds of Rhiannon were three magical birds, closely associated with fertility Goddess Rhiannon, that had the power to wake the dead and simultaneously sing the living to sleep.
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
Kirsten Schaap (@kirsketchbook) is an illustrator living and working in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her work revolves around introspection, darkness, contrast and raw emotion- fear, loss and decay are recurring themes in her work. She mainly works in black-and-white and her work is drawn by hand using a stippling technique, which enables her to bring depth, texture and layers into her work. She is inspired by nature, mythology and science fiction.