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All Flesh Is Grass
oil and wax and gold 12 x 16 inches Isaiah 40, a chapter of comfort for God's people, describes humankind as grass that flourishes only for a short time. We are temporary; we live in time. The good news is that the Timeless One, or as my Vessel Series describes him, The One Who Came On the Waters of Time, is the eternal Word of God. He created time and became flesh /"grass" to die, Hebrews 2:14-15, "to destroy death and the one who has the power of death, that is the devil."
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Come to The Feast
12 x 12 inches oil and wax on canvas (framed in a 2" deep floater frame) This piece was chosen to be part of CIVA's curated traveling show called "Come To The Table". Come to the Table, features thirty-four selected works from historical pieces by Albrecht Durer, to modernist work by Jasper Johns and Sadao Watanabe, to fresh contemporary pieces created by CIVA artists. This work, executed in a variety of media, celebrates both the rich community gathered at the Table of Fellowship and the privilege of meeting with God at his Table of Communion. The table is a rich biblical metaphor seen in passages such as Abraham entertaining angels, the Christ’s Last Supper with his disciples, the great Marriage Feast of the Lamb at the end of time. -
Extravagant Grace / Vessel Series
12 x 12 inches oil and wax on canvas Sold God's grace pours from the sky into an earthly vessel. It overflows in abundance. -
He Will Gather Them From East and West
12 x 12 inches oil. wax and gold on panel SOLD This small piece references the Triune God who gathers a people for himself from the east and from the west. The figure robed in white is the Father. The red figure at center is the sacrificial Son, and the gold references God the Spirit. -
Trinity / Into The Yellow Curtained Room
12 x 12 oil and wax on canvas The title is taken from a poem by Myra Scovel about the death of her daughter as she stepped into eternity. It also references the Incarnation and the Triune God who became flesh and lived among us. -
"Lazarus, Come Forth"
12 x 12 inches oil and wax and gold in floater frame These are the words of Jesus when he raised his friend Lazarus from the dead. John tells of the death of Lazarus. This was the seventh miracle that Jesus performed. "When Jesus had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out." The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth," John 11:43-44 -
Put Yourself In the Path of the Wind
12 x 18 inches oil and wax and gold on panel The hope of the resurrection and healing for our brokenness is the theme of this piece. The title is taken from Myra Scovel's poem, Put Yourself in The Path of the Wind. Malachi 4:2 also comes to mind. "But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings." -
The Seed / Under His Feet . . . Even Death 12 x 12 oil and wax and gold This small painting embodies the Incarnation. The title is taken from Hebrews 2:14 which tells of Jesus, who left the glory of heaven to take the punishment of death for sinful mankind. His sacrifice put everything in subjection to him, even death. It is framed in a black floater frame.
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Annunciation
12 x 12 with deep floater frame oil and wax on gold leaf SOLD This small jewel- like painting is heaven come to earth. The angel Gabriel was sent from heaven to tell Mary that she had found favor with God and that she would conceive and bear a son. His name was to be Jesus. "He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David...and of his kingdom there will be no end. " (Luke 1:30-33) -
The Days of My Pilgrimage/ St Francis
SOLD 12 x 12 inches oil and wax and gold and papers This vessel painting began with the glories of the heavens and evolved into a worshipping St Francis. The figure of St Francis and the small clock were inspired by the embedded newspaper clipping of a man working in his shop, an earthly creator. -
The King Who Came To Give Away His Crown
12 x 12 inches oil and wax and gold leaf sold Title is taken from a poem by English poet Malcolm Guite. It describes Jesus, the God who became flesh, who left his heavenly home to redeem a broken world. He put on the crown of thorns to give us a crown of glory. -
The Sun of Righteousness Will Rise
12 x 12 inches oil and wax on panel in black floater frame The title is taken from Malachi 4: 2 "But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall." The sun in all its glory cannot be compared to the Son of God whose incarnation brought truth and righteousness and healing. -
The Weight of a Leaf
12 x 12 framed in gold oil and wax and gold Myra Scoval's poetry book is called "The Weight of A Leaf." It was given to us at our wedding over fifty years ago. It is about God's grace in the day to day events of our lives. It begins, "We have bent to love as a twig bends to the weight of a leaf." -
monotype with 23k gold 16 x 16 inches (matted 22 x 22 inches)
The title "Known" is from the poem, Banding -- known intimately in the mind of One who flies. The gold square at the center of the swallows is a reference to the place where God, who knows you intimately, has prepared a place for you in Heaven, also symbolized by the square gold Holy of Holies of the Hebrew temple. A monotype print is unique / one of a kind print made by pressing paper against a painted or inked surface that cannot be exactly duplicated. I used an etching press and incorporated a drawn stencil of a swallow in this series. The size of the print includes an inch around the monotype to include the title and rough edges, ( 3 inch matting) -
oil and wax on panel 12 x 12 inches We live and celebrate our time on earth-these "forty years," a symbol of suffering and desert.
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Good Friday
12 x 12 inches oil and wax on panel "All things grow more paradoxical as we approach the central truth." (G.K. Chesterton) The painting brought to mind two great thinkers and writers of this past century. Read T.S. Elliot's poem below. -
oil and wax and gold10 x 10 inchescurently showing in Galerie AZUR in Madrid (see Exhibitions) The Incarnation: "...a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth." God sent his Son to become man to take captive his captives and give gifts to men! (see red nets and a row of dark figures in the lower half of the painting)
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oil glazes and mixed media on panel 12 x 12 inches framed in a floater frame In the center of this painting is an image of Durer's Dead Christ. He is roaring! To break curse calls for the thunder of his voice, his voice! Job 26. Under it is a construction diagram explaining how to "plum, to make straight or justify" a building. And above is a figure of the risen One who laid down his life and has taken it up again.
"Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it up again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down on my own initiative. I have the authority to lay it down and I have the authority to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father." John 10:17-18 The title is taken from Suzanne's Rhodes book by the same name. -
Feasting in the Desert
mixed media 18 x 24 inchessold “He has prepared a table for you in the presence of your enemies.” (Psalm 23: 5) They spoke against God saying, “Can God spread a table in the wilderness?” (Psalm 78:19)
“He knows your going though this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.” Deuteronomy 2: 4
