As I sit in my garden enjoying our little bit of sunshine, I am aware that there are faces all around, watching me. These are just a few of them.Many moons ago, when I first started out on my ceramics journey, I went through a bit of a 'Green Man' phase. They are just about the first things I made, so they've lasted well! The individual leaves are all handmade and attached one by one.
As you all probably know, the Green Man is a mythical figure, frequently found on carvings in Churches and other buildings. 
The above is obviously not a Green Man - he is my first and only attempt at sculpting a head; he now sits on top of a large pot in the shade of the trees, and gets more worn and mossy with each passing year.
This one is supposed to have things growing through the holes in his chin, but as you see, nothing has yet been planted in there this year. Must alert the gardener to that little job!The 'Green Man' is generally seen as a symbol of re-birth, representing the cycle of growth which arrives with each Spring.
Is there a re-birth going on in your garden?
My sister would love these there just her kind of style ;-) dee x
ReplyDeleteI ave a green man watching ver my garden.
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I love the green man - infact spookily I have just posted a picture of him on my last post! Great minds. x
ReplyDeleteCatherine- I am pleased to report I can see the tips of my daffodils just poking through the earth! I think I need a green man, too!
ReplyDeleteInteresting post..I had no idea about 'Green man'!
ReplyDeletehow lovely to have such a decorated garden xxx
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment! I'm glad you like my blog! Yeah I am a bit obsessed with buying bits and pieces for the flat - it will be too full soon! xx
ReplyDeleteI looove them. And even worse - I will have to sew one myself :) Well, maybe not for a garden...
ReplyDeleteBut it is unfair - you know I'm busy with my garden and you try to distract me :)))
Thanks for dropping by my blog and commenting! I am now going to sit a while with a cuppa and look through all your lovely ceramics,etc. Cx
ReplyDeleteHi Thanks for your comment, I will follow your blog. Your pottery is so lovely !
ReplyDeleteSue x
Hi Catherine, thanks so much for your kind and appreciated comments on my blog, lovely to hear from you!
ReplyDeleteThese sculptures are amazing, I have always enjoyed looking at old churches and have seen many different interpretations of the Green Man, all of them fascinating.
Helenxx
There is a definite rebirth in our garden! The lawn is in desperate need of a cut and the lawnmower refuses to start. Oh to be a mechanic, life would be so much easier.
ReplyDeleteHi, via hillside cottage from another potter :-)
ReplyDeleteI got really interested in the legends of the Green Man when I studied it in an early literature course, I love that he carries a branch of holly!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful garden. Nice controlling. Thanks for sharing.
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