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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." -
Out of stockWonders of His Love 12 x 12 inches oil and wax on panel SOLD The God who breathed life and light into the world entered his Creation to redeem it. In great kindness, God has given us his bodily presence, The WORD made flesh, AND his written WORD! "The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed to us and to our children forever are all the words of the law." Deut.29:29
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Word Worship Babel
oil and wax and paper on canvas 16 x 20 inches SOLD This piece was selected for exhibition in Madrid’s Galerie AZUR for the FLANERIE EXHIBITION 2021 The reference is the postmodern phrase that “the world is a TEXT to be manipulated for power. Words are power and our attempt to make a global community without the WORD of GOD. -
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) -
One Who Came on the Waters of Time Series
encaustic wax monotype12 x 162017 A wax monotype is done on a hotplate. I wanted to enhance the transparency and shades of the watery blues on top of an existing oil monoprint, (previously run through a printing press.) The God who created the world by water rescues us from this world of water. "He drew me out of many waters." (Psalm 18:16) -
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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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. -
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. -
LIFTED / RESURRECTION12 x 12 incheThis painting depicts an angel lifting and supporting a figure. The original painting has sold. BUT a beautiful giclee print -large format or small - can be printed on paper, canvas, or metal. It can also be framed in a beautiful floater frame. Check it out on my SHOP LINK
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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 -
Worthy to Open the Scroll
oil and cold wax
12 x 18 inches giclee on Hahnemuhle rag paper2013 -
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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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 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.
