MUSIC TREE OF LIFE © Hamish Burgess 2010.
Signed and numbered Limited Edition Giclée print of 300 on water-colour paper. 20 x 5 inches, plus a white unprinted border.
Original Celtic art by Hamish Burgess, a piece commissioned by George Millar, founder of the legendary The Irish Rovers, as a piece for the band’s website, www.theirishroversmusic.com.

The traditional Tree of Life comes out of a cauldron, with the plant entwining round the band’s instruments. The leaves are actually music notes that play (from left to the cauldron) the first guitar bar of the ‘Unicorn Song‘, and then (above cauldron to the right) the first bar of the song’s words: “A long time ago when the earth was green, there were more kinds of animals than……”.
The instruments are the band members’ own ones – George Millar’s guitar and Wilcil McDowell’s accordion closest to the cauldron, as they are the original members. Then the rest of the band with bouzouki, tin whistle and banjo to the left, and mandolin and bodhran to the right. At the far ends are session instruments from The Irish Rovers album’s, the Uileann pipes and fiddle.
An international piece – Hamish thought of it in Scotland, drew it first in Vancouver BC, worked on it in Ireland, and finished it in Maui, Hawaii !

All prints signed and numbered by the artist in pencil at the bottom.
The print you receive will not have the artist’s name across it, as in the photo. That is for internet viewing only.
Aloha and mahalo for looking.