Protected
A wood nymph admires her flourishing forest with love and gratitude along a narrow treeline. Her fury, feathered, and fuzzy friends at her side as she greets each of them with a warm embrace. Protected. Safe. Loved.
This painting started as something entirely different. I knew I wanted to paint the forest and its inhabitants in order to capture the peace within nature. The warmth that the world can offer and the calm that accompanies it. As the piece progressed it changed to include the hidden, the misunderstood, and the ever important protectors of the world. So often we forget that a knock-on-wood is a request from the Wood Nymphs to protect us.
So let us embrace nature’s protectors and invite her into our home as a visual reminder of those would live to serve those who cannot protect themselves.
A wood nymph admires her flourishing forest with love and gratitude along a narrow treeline. Her fury, feathered, and fuzzy friends at her side as she greets each of them with a warm embrace. Protected. Safe. Loved.
This painting started as something entirely different. I knew I wanted to paint the forest and its inhabitants in order to capture the peace within nature. The warmth that the world can offer and the calm that accompanies it. As the piece progressed it changed to include the hidden, the misunderstood, and the ever important protectors of the world. So often we forget that a knock-on-wood is a request from the Wood Nymphs to protect us.
So let us embrace nature’s protectors and invite her into our home as a visual reminder of those would live to serve those who cannot protect themselves.
A wood nymph admires her flourishing forest with love and gratitude along a narrow treeline. Her fury, feathered, and fuzzy friends at her side as she greets each of them with a warm embrace. Protected. Safe. Loved.
This painting started as something entirely different. I knew I wanted to paint the forest and its inhabitants in order to capture the peace within nature. The warmth that the world can offer and the calm that accompanies it. As the piece progressed it changed to include the hidden, the misunderstood, and the ever important protectors of the world. So often we forget that a knock-on-wood is a request from the Wood Nymphs to protect us.
So let us embrace nature’s protectors and invite her into our home as a visual reminder of those would live to serve those who cannot protect themselves.
12”x16” Original Oil on Canvas by Manda May Layman
