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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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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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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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oil and cold wax and gold leaf12 x 12 inches in a black floater frame SOLDThis 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; ..." -
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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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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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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Gold Moves /Sandcastle Babel
12 x 12 inches oil and wax and Wall Street Journal on framed panel My Global City Babel Series incorporates The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel. Here this motif is painted over financial news from the Wall Street Journal with the headline, "Gold Moves Lower." You have built on sand... 'Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming on you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion wil be evidence against you. You have laid up treasure in the last days....you have condemned and murdered the righteous person. He does not resist you. James 5 -
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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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 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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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 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 12 x 12 inches in black floater frame The gift is so paradoxical. You must die to live; you must be captured in God's nets to be free. We cannot fathom the love of God before eternity to come to suffer and die to rescue those he came to save. The cross is the glory of God.
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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 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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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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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. -
Banding II
collograph / monoprint 12 x 14 inches
Monoprint refers to an art process that produces a one of a kind image, and the process of adding color/inks to a prepared surface each time you run it through a printing press one time. -
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 -
Worthy to Open the Scroll
oil and cold wax
12 x 18 inches giclee on Hahnemuhle rag paper2013
