Throughout the ages, in many cultures, The Tree has been a symbol of :
The Spiritual World; The Natural World; The Environment; the Psyche etc.
Many individual nations, cities, towns and institutions have a tree as their symbol.
The Tree in this series most often represents an Individual Person in their world, but may also stand for Society as a Whole, or even for our world..
This particular series started after a workshop at a conference in which people were invited to draw a picture of their life or themselves, “as a tree”! The pictures were as interesting as the people themselves!
I then continued with a series called The Tree as Spiritual Symbol. The early ones were painted on paper, or drawn with coloured pencils. Later, because it is “the same tree over and over again” (ie. any individual person) I started doing them digitally. Now I just call it the Tree as Symbol, because I do not draw a line between Spirituality and “just Life! “
The “trees” here are relevant to my journey. What does the Tree mean to you?
How would you draw yourself as a tree?
Below are the pictures of the Tree which are on the site so far. There are others still to be uploaded.
Clicking on the titles below will take you to a larger version of each picture, (these here are cropped) but for an explanation about the individual pictures view the whole series here.
View the Tree as Symbol Series.