Dean's Bodach

This haunting 12x12 pour painting, titled "Bodach," embodies the ethereal and foreboding presence of the spiritual entities from Celtic folklore known to appear when death approaches. The piece is rendered in a somber palette of deep charcoal grays, ghostly whites, and pewter tones that seem to shift and breathe across the canvas like spectral forms gathering in anticipation.

The fluid paint has created an otherworldly landscape where shadowy currents spiral and converge, suggesting the invisible realm where these ancient spirits dwell. Tendrils of silvery paint weave through darker pools like wisps of supernatural energy, while the organic, flowing patterns evoke the liminal space between the physical and spiritual worlds. The natural cells and negative spaces formed during the pour process appear almost like watching eyes or gaping mouths, adding to the painting's sense of mystical presence.

The composition's dramatic movement suggests the restless energy of these gathering spirits—neither fully formed nor completely absent, but existing in that twilight realm of premonition and ancient knowing. The restricted monochromatic palette enhances the painting's spectral quality, creating depth and mystery while maintaining an appropriately somber tone befitting creatures that herald life's final threshold.

"Bodach" captures both the beauty and the unease of encountering the supernatural, where flowing paint becomes a medium for expressing the ineffable presence of spirits that exist just beyond our perception, drawn by forces we cannot fully understand.