The Witch Night

Details About Shipping Oil on Paper 16 x 12 in. © 2016 Framed I come from a small country, Latvia, in the North-Eastern part of Europe. In the earliest chronicles that mention these parts, shortly after crusaders came to invade, it says that they found out ~ every woman here who reaches a certain age, is a witch. Every single one of them. To me it always meant ~ a free and sacred woman who is the master of her own reality, who lives and works in harmony with nature cycles and her own body, with integrity and intuitive female wisdom, the very soul of her place: a woman who forges her own destiny in the fire of her heart. Nothing else speaks more of a femme fatale to me than that. And not some official temple priestess, but every single woman. And I’m the great granddaughter of those witches. The photos for my painting were taken during the midsummer’s eve last year. It is part of my life and tradition. Jana Brike was born in Latvia, a small country in the Northeastern part of E