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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 -
12 x 12 inches oil and wax and gold in a black floater frameThe antithetical war for truth continues but Revelation 12:7-10 tells us the outcome.
"Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon. And the dragon, who is called Satan, and his angels fought back, but he was defeated and there was no longer any place for them in heaven." -
12 x 12 inches oil and wax and text on panel (in a black floater frame)Text embedded in this piece is from a Wall Street Journal artical about the 9/11 trial. Interestingly the title text, Defendant's Words, was torn in two forming a broken vessel. How appropriate for speech that is broken, dishonest and often raucous.
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oil and wax and gold on panel (framed in black floater frame) This is "the house of our pilgrimage" to the promised land. "We are filled with brilliance, etched and defined by the colors of our sorrows -redeemed! (Barbara Knuckles)
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Out of stockoil and wax 12 x 12 inches (framed in floater frame) SOLD Beauty springs forth from the seed that dies. "Except a seed fall into the ground and die, it cannot bring forth fruit." Currently showing at Taupe Gallery. Call if you are interested in purchasing.
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12 x 12 inches oil and wax and Wall Street Journal papers sold 2021 protests across Europe, from a story torn from the Wall Street Journal, formed the Tower of Babel motif for this Global City Babel painting. It was the fiery yellow that caught my attention, and when I embedded it in the beeswax I saw a figure between the police and the rioters.
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encaustic with chest X-ray 12 x 12 inches framed in black floater frame From a series called "Learning to Breathe," this painitng contains a chest X-ray of a rib cage and a vessel supported by this human temple, is lifted up to receive grace.
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oil and wax and gold 10 x 10 inches in black floater frame This small oil and wax painting encapsulates the Banding poem. The nets of God's love "catching" you for his own.
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oil and wax and gold on panel 16 x 16 inches Let the heavens sing as the Night Watchman who sang them into existence, listens to their praise! He knows each star by name. He watches over them just as he watches over each of his descendants who number as many as the stars.
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12 x 12 inches oil and wax on panel (framed in a black floater frame) We live in the cities of this world and although we know we have "a city eternal in the heavens," God asks us to love our neighbors and "seek the peace of the city." We are to be involved in its daily well-being as stewards, people who know that the "govenment rests upon His shoulders" and Jesus is the true peace-maker.
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24 x 28 inches (framed) oil and wax and gold on panel This oil and wax abstract painting is rich with metaphorical nuances referencing Jesus, the stone of stumbling, the stone rejected by builders who has become the cornerstone mentioned in Psalm 118 : 22 and in the New Testament Scriptures. (Romans 9, 1 Peter 2)
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encaustic12 x 12 inches in a black floater frameEmbedded in this encaustic painting are nets referencing the poem "Banding," which begins -"The nets of God hang in every wild place." Also transfered into the beeswax is text in various languages and a large fish. The Scriptural references are many, but the main theme is the sovereign God who lovingly gathers a people from all nations as his bride for eternal glory. “Thus says the Lord God: I will throw my net over you with a host of many peoples, and they will haul you up in my dragnet.” Ezekiel 32:3
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encaustic12 x 12 inchesEmbedded yellow nets released from the hand of Creator God who sings. "I will bring forth My people out with joy, my chosen ones with singing!" Psalm 105:43 In the collection of Westminster Presbyterian Church Minneapolis, MN
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oil and wax and net 12 x 12 inches in black floater frame God's nets are everywhere to catch the unwary migrant. He will guide them through the portal to safety in their pilgrimage through barren land.
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oil and wax and papers 12 x 12 inches with black floater frame The nets of God are symbolized here in the underlying grid in this small painting. The sacrifice of God, the lamb prepared before the foundation of the world.
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oil and wax on panel 12 x 12 inches (in black floater frame) The crowds shouted loud Hosannas at Jesus' entry into Jerusalem a week before his death. Indignant Pharisees were silenced by Jesus' answer. "If these were silent, the very stones would cry out."
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oil and cold wax and gold leaf12 x 12 inches in a black floater frameThis small painting speaks of pilgrimage. The text is taken from Michael O'Brien's novel, Island of the World. "A voyage is a movement embraced by departure and arrival,
an arc between speaking and hearing.
More it asks of us than we of it.
Look neither to your right nor to your left, my mariner; ..."
