ORIGINAL PAINTING IS AVAILABLE!
Oil on 140 lb watercolor paper mounted on birch plywood. 15 x 20 x 0.5, unframed. This original painting is available for purchase, If interested in purchase of original contact artist directly at: rdholew(at)aol.com

This is a portrait of Merlin, a fascinating streetwise wizard, a man equal parts mystery and magic.

The Merlin of today and yesterday is also one of the most famous figures in Welsh literature and Arthurian legend. He was a wizard or sorcerer, a prophet, a bard, an adviser and a tutor. He appeared as a young boy with no father. He appeared as an old, wise man, freely giving his wisdom to four successive British kings. He had even appeared as a madman after bloody battle, and had fled into the forest and learned how to talk to the animals, where he became known as the Wild Man of the Woods. Finally, Merlin was the last of the druid, the Celtic shaman, priest of n