Wisdom Dove Speaks

wisdom Dove Speaks

1992

Oil on sewn canvas, tied and stretched on a

wooden window frame, framed in rough oak

 

This is a combination of Jim Hansford’s

shed window frame, Steph’s raw oak

outside frame, fine woven cotton and

rough canvas, variously tied and streched.

It was painted in 1992 when I was Artist in

Residence for the United Reformed Church Forum conference. Themed ‘Roots and Branches’ the conference was planned to look at the roots of the URC; I couldn’t help but go back to the roots of our faith altogether. To me, the right side is rather like the knowledge of God as shared before Jesus Christ and the left, that knowledge as made human in the world.

The Spirit (Wisdom Dove) is everywhere.

This is a statement of that which I have always felt held me and as a statement of what I always believed. Indeed, the detail of the Holy Spirit/Wisdom Dove speaking into the human ear is so meaningful to me that it gave rise to the name of my Breathing Light Exhibiton and is now the image I use as an artist’s

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