Description

One sentence created an image immediately in my imagination. It told of the Germanic goddess Ursa who would carry the moon across the sky in her silver boat. The image was so striking that I had to paint it and soon started its planning. While I was drawing the composition, I remembered four-thousand-year-old Scandinavian rock carvings of boats I had seen. With some research, I found that one of these boats was excavated and is on display. The boat, in this painting, is derived from this design.
After the painting had begun, a Northern saw-wet owl visited us just outside our kitchen window. That little fellow was perfect for the back of her boat.