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Celtic Tree of Life
COPYRIGHT
Original Artwork & Text by Welsh artist Jen Delyth ©1990 - 2010
For More Celtic Art www.celticartstudio.com
GRAPHIC WEB LINKS
Link back to our site, including Banner or Thumbnail Logo - Here
More Non-commercial use Tree of Life Art - Graphic Link for Webmasters Here

The Celtic Tree of Life is an original design
by Welsh artist Jen Delyth ©1990 celticartstudo.com
This is perhaps Jen Delyth's most well known and appreciated design that she created in 1990.
This is an original, contemporary design, not based on any ancient or modern Celtic pattern. It is taking root as a modern Celtic Folk motif to speak of the interconnection of all living things - however, it is not a public domain image.
COPYRIGHT
All art work published through Ninth Wave Publishing & Keltic Designs, including all illustrations on this web site, represent the personal creative effort of Jen Delyth 1990-2010. None of these original contemporary designs are public domain or shareware.
PLEASE do not copy images from this site without asking permission
from webmaster
NO commercial reproductions without valid license from Keltic Designs Inc.
We do NOT license our Tree of Life design for company LOGOS since it is our own personal trademarked company logo
We have experienced problems from some of Jen's original images being used without permission,
especially those published without any credit. We are working hard to protect her designs from non-authorised use - especially on the internet. Artwork MUST BE credited, and linked within the image back to the creator. This is an issue many modern Celtic artists who create original designs, are experiencing.
We appreciate your support and enjoyment of our art, but need our authorship rights to remain respected. Many thanks to all of you who have been so wonderful in this regard.
LICENSING AND LOGO USE
We thank everyone who has kindly asked permission to use the Tree of Life for their commercial and private purposes, and we appreciate the respect and understanding many of you have given. We rarely enter into licensing options with other companies, and we NEVER grant permission to use the Tree of Life for a company Logo, or to represent an organisation other than our own, since it is our own trademark and Logo for Keltic Designs.
We understand and appreciate the many requests we recieve to use Jen's Tree of Life as a Logo, or to represent a non-profit organisation. It is not easy for us to turn down the requests we receive from creative and positive businesses and non-profits. However, it would be impossible for us to protect our design from the public domain without our strict policy in place, and we have been consistent in actively restricting use of the design to Keltic Designs as our company symbol since it was created in 1990.
Thank you for helping us maintain the special protection we reserve for this design.
PUBLISHING & PERSONAL ONE-TIME USE
We are happy to provide publishing permission and contracts for non-commercial use, such as magazine illustration, book covers, web illustrations - but only with authorisation from us, and according to our terms of use. Credit must ALWAYS be given next to or near the image. Please contact info
PERSONAL TATTOOS
You do not need to request permission to use one of our designs as a personal tattoo. However, we love when we are sent pictures of your tattoos, and enjoy your appreciation when you let us know you have done one with Jen's work. It is a compliment, and we are honored by your decision to choose a positive, original piece of art by Jen Delyth.
TATTOO ARTISTS
Tattoo artists are welcome to use Jen Delyth designs as individual personal tattoos on their customers. Published works of any other kind should be credited with "Celtic Tree of Life by Jen Delyth ©1990" and Keltic Designs contacted. We do not give permission for commercial sale of images as tattoes, flash images, CD packages, internet downloads or any other commercial reproduction of Jen's original artwork without permission or licensing arrangments with Keltic Designs. Thanks a lot for helping protect artists and their work.
COPYRIGHT STATEMENT
Thanks to Stephen Walker - Celtic artist - for this following statement
Celtic designs have an ancient heritage. However, the work shown here is not an imitation of historical Celtic Art but new and original creations which are authentic continuations of that artistic heritage. Because Celtic Art often is used to make a link to the distant past it is often mistakenly thought that genuine designs can only be copied from antiquity.
This is unfortunate because artistic integrity demands that the designer create a new manifestation of the art, unique to present times. As a living art form, Celtic Art can only be
sustained by pursuing the goal of mastery of the creative process that ultimately results in new and imaginative work.
It is commonly and wrongly supposed that all Celtic designs are ancient and therefore free from copyright restrictions. The truth is that new, traditionally correct designs often look as if they could be very old, but they are none-the-less intellectual property of the artist. Use of copyright designs by anyone other than the artist requires permission in the case of personal use or a licensing agreement in the case of commercial use. All rights reserved.
COPYRIGHT & TRADEMARK INFO
The designs on this site are contemporary, created within the style of traditional Celtic art, but as new original creations, including our logo the Celtic Tree of Life ©1990 which is not based on a traditional design, but is Jen's original work.
This design is used exclusively by Keltic Designs Inc, and represents our company, and is our legal trade mark and intellectual property © 1990 All rights reserved.
Therefore, we do not give permission for this design to be used or licensed for commercial use outside of Keltic Designs. If you see this design in a clip art collection, or appearing online without appropriate credit, or on a non-Keltic Designs product - then it is probably being used unauthorised, and we appreciate you letting us know so we can prevent its continuing to be used improperly info
TREE OF LIFE Y Goeden Bywyd
Design & Text by Jen Delyth ©1990
Britain was once covered in extensive oak forest, and reverence for Trees is at the heart of Celtic spirituality. Druids had their teaching centers in the midst of Oak groves, and the words for wood and wisdom are similar (Welsh gwydd and gwyddon). The Celtic Druids, priestesses and healer-women encoded their deep knowledge of trees and herbs into an ancient cryptic Tree alphabet - an Ogham ciper — Beth Luis-Nuin. The ‘Tree of Life’ is an esoteric philosophy common to many cultures and mythologies. The Ancients envisioned the entire cosmos in the form of a tree whose roots grow deep in the ground, branches reaching high into the heavens. Also known as the World Tree, the primal Mother Tree was regarded as all-nourishing, all-giving, involved in the creation of the universe and the origin of the first man and woman. In the border motif (adapted from the Book of Kells — a medieval manuscript) the pot represents this Source, or Earth Womb, also symbolized as the Grail, or Cauldron of Regeneration in Celtic mythology. The interlacing branches symbolize the Celtic belief in the Continuity of Life. text by Jen Delyth©1990
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