PAINTED PSALMS
This is a selection of the 30 paintings based on study of the Psalms, which I created during my time as Artist in Residence with the community of the Resurrection at Mirfielld, Yorkshire. They were inspired by the regular use of the Psalms in the daily Liturgy. As the Psalms spoke to me through my days there I filled sketchbooks with my visual meditations to them, and kept a diary of my thoughts and responses. I then tried to create painted meditations, which took on the feeling of either a whole Psalm or a verse within it which had struck me. Some of the Psalms show the individual vulnerability of the writer, others are full of praise, resolution or intercession. I have become fascinated by the potential of 'painted psalms', using images and colour where the psalmists used poetry and music. I have not yet managed to achieve that, but these paintings were part of a process towards that aim.
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