The Season Has Shed Her Mantle
Oil and gold leaf on wooden panel, 99cm by 60cm, not including frame size.
This painting will be professionally framed before shipping. The frame shown is for illustrative purposes only — while I will aim to have the work framed with a similar moulding/style, the moulding shown is not suitable for a piece this size.
Please allow up to three weeks for framing and delivery. If you need the painting by a specific date, please contact me and I will do my best to help.
Artist’s Note: A symbolic, spiritual painting showing the blossoming of spring, as mother earth sheds her cloak of winter.
The season has shed its mantle
Of wind, cold and rain,
And has clothed itself in embroidery,
In gleaming sunshine, bright and fair.
There is no animal or bird
That does not sing or call in its own tongue:
The season has shed its mantle!
Stream, fountain and brook
Bear, as handsome livery,
Silver drops of goldsmith’s work;
Everyone puts on new garments:
The season has shed its mantle.
Charles D’Orleans