​​​​​​​Mark Skirving

Temptation
100cm x 50cm x 5cm
Oils & acrylics on boxed canvas £1200

Fair Rosamund 60cm x 60cm Oils on canvas £1800

Oil & acrylic on boxed canvas 114cm x 71cm £750
“Knowledge forbidden?
Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord
Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know?
Can it be death?” 
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

Oil & acrylic on boxed canvas 114cm x 71cm £750
“Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds,--/ Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross. ” 
― John Milton

Oils & acrylic on canvas 76 cm x 51 cm £800. Painted in my Birmingham Studio 2015
Branwen: Welsh Goddess of love and beauty.
A daughter of Manannan and Iweridd whose name means "fair bosom“ or “white breasted”. She is often equated with the Greek Aphrodite.

Oils, acrylic and texture paste on canvas 101 cm x 80 cm £800
The goddess of love and beauty. She was born from the foam of the sea, when the castrated genitals of Ouranos were cast down from heaven. Although Aphrodite was a heavenly goddess she retained a close kinship with the sea.

Oils, acrylic and texture paste on canvas 101 cm x 80 cm £650
Blodeuedd: (Welsh) Goddess of Spring, she was created from flowers. Lily maid of Celtic initiation ceremonies. Also known as the Ninefold Goddess of the Western Isles of Paradise.

Oils & Acrlic on Boxed Canvas 60cm x 60cm £500
This is why you were born: to silence me.
Cells of my mother and father, it is your turn
to be pivotal, to be the masterpiece.