Good Shepherd Cross

This is a lovely Good Shepherd cross handpainted in El Salvador. It features an image of Jesus the Good Shepherd holding a lamb in the night while a dove flies overhead. Each cross is brightly coloured however, colours will vary between crosses as they are individually handpainted. 
 
The El Salvador articles come from the village of La Palma, in the mountains near the Honduras border. Pine trees grow everywhere.
It began when an artist, Fernando Llort, settled there with his wife’s family and began painting on the seed of the copinal tree, a local fruit tree. Other villagers came to watch and asked to be taught. From that grew a whole industry.
The men cut the pine and shape it, the designs are screen printed on and then go to many of the homes to be painted. The whole family becomes involved.
 
Size: 10cm H