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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 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; ..." -
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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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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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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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 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. -
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 -
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 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 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. -
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)
