"Got Rhythm?"

5" x 7"
Mixed Media
$75.00

A dance with paper, paint, pencil and paste.

"Ancient Ground"

6" x 8"
Mixed Media
$75.00

An experimental piece
using color and texture to ponder
the new and the now
in light of
the ancient foundations of time, life, the world...

"Angel Choir Collage"

Mixed Media Collage
6" x 6"
$50.00

Here's to a Happy New Year in 2009!

"Psalm 52:8 - Olive Tree"

Original Mixed Media Collage
Worship Painting

15" x 22" - SOLD

Part of the Water into Word series, this was painted at a conference focusing on intercession at Light of Christ Church in Marietta, Georgia yesterday. At the Church of All Nations in the Garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem, the olive trees are extremely old and have massive trunks. On one side of the church near the doors is a wall of stone with olive trees planted in the ground above the wall. In reality the trees above the wall are not as old as those in the garden on the other side and certainly not as massive as the one in this painting. I wanted to paint this tree as weathered, substantial, strong, green and alive. The olive tree is a symbol of the anointing of God. One of the conference participants asked me what the wall represented. I didn't have a particular reason (not unusual for me as an artist...) other than having seen the wall at Gethesmane and wanting to use it in the artwork. She, however, had thought it was the wall of intercession, and I told her I thought she was right. I think worship painting in church or at a conference is not just about what God inspires me to paint or what I interpret the meaning to be - it's also about what he speaks to others through it, and in this case, it is a great example of how he gave someone else an interpretative element of the painting that brought a deeper significance to it, especially regarding the gift and ministry of intercession.

"Feed My Sheep"

Original Mixed Media Collage
Worship Painting

15" x 22"
Matted to 22" x 28" - NFS

Painted Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at the 6:30 p.m. service. The cross and the rock are from Tabgha in Israel, both inside the Chapel of Peter's Primacy on the Sea of Galilee, the traditional site of Jesus' third appearance to the disciples after the resurrection - the place where he stood on the shore and prepared breakfast for his disciples - the place of Peter's reinstatement. After denying Jesus 3 times before the crucifixion, it is here by the Galilee that Jesus prompts Peter to proclaim 3 times his love for Jesus, with Jesus' instruction to "feed my sheep." This painting is being donated to St. Andrews' mission outreach auction, at it's annual "Fishin' for a Mission" to help raise money to "feed His sheep."

"Healing"

Original Mixed Media Collage - SOLD
Worship Painting

15" x 22" As Is - $150.00
Double Matted to 22" x 28" - $175.00

Another in my "Water and Word Series" - painted last evening at the St. Andrews 6:30 service. Tuesday night in prayer, I clearly saw the dove (which looks more like an angel now) with outstretched wings as though "hovering." Then I associated this with my photo of a dove perched (without the wings outstretched) on top of the white stone ruins at the Pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem. Since that site has always been associated with healing (the sick believed that an angel "stirred the water"), I felt that God's heart at the Wed service might include healing.

"Temple Pillar"

Original Mixed Media Collage

Worship Painting

15" x 22" As Is - $150.00
Double Matted to 22" x 28" - $175.00

Painted last night at the 6:30 St. Andrews service. I've decided to call these collages, 5 to date, my "Water and the Word" series because I'm using watercolor on top of heavy watercolor paper which I've previously gessoed and "scriptured" (my new art term for pasting scripture on paper, canvas or anything else I want to paint on). With these paintings, I've either (1) received an image or thought and then searched for related scripture or (2) received the word or scripture first, then decided how to interpret that through image, color and line.

The scripture is 1 Kings 7:15-22 about the 2 pillars standing out in front of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem. Each pillar had a name: "Boaz" probably meaning (from the NIV notes) "in him is strength" and "Jakin" probably meaning "he establishes." At one point during the service, Dwight Huthwaite, our worship leader, felt that we were to pray for leaders, and I felt a connection between the prayer and the artwork. I believe that true leaders are established only by God. And the wise leader realizes that to truly lead, he can never rely on his own strength, he must rely on God's strength.