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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."
We long for eternity; the gold-lined horizon (horizo-the line separating heaven and earth). -
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." -
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. -
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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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. -
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 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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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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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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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. -
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. -
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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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. -
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) -
"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 -
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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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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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.
