Guardian of the Innocent. Wooden Retablo, Ornament.

For Protection, Nuture & Care. "Angel Guardian of the Innocent, we call upon you from our hearts for the children and the creatures of the Earth. Guard, protect, shield, enfold these trusting ones entrusted to us.

Walk with us into the Day where none go in fear and none is harmed, where open hearts of beasts & babes are known and all the Earth becomes a sacred home."

© Gabrielle Herbertson

 About the Artist

Lynn Garlick started carving, painting, and producing her retablos in 1993. Her workshop is located in the high desert town of Taos, New Mexico, a landscape richly steeped in religious iconography and history. The retablo, or ʻboard behind the alterʼ, was originally created in New Mexico in the 1800ʼs in response to the lack of Bibles and Icons being sent from the church in Rome. The Santero (saint maker) painted retablos from pigment collected and ground from the local surroundings. The boards were hand hewed usually of ponderosa pine or tin. The practice has carried down through the generations and is still done this way today. Lynn paints her originals retablos on traditional pine boards carving and then paints them. To create her production work the images are mounted on baltic birch.