Parzival

Putting the birds back in the trees… 61 cm x 81 cm acrylic on board

I’ve been reading a medieval German, Holy Grail tale called, ‘ Parzival. ‘  Parzival’s mother, the white queen, after suffering the loss of her husband, turns her back on the world of war and chivalry and retires to the forest. Her son as he grows up, protected from the outside world is entranced by the freedom and beauty of the birds and tells his mother. In her fear that he will follow his heart away from the stultifying safety of the forest, his mother tells her woodsmen to strangle all the birds in the forest…