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Brick Expressionism developed at the same time as the "New Objectivity" of Bauhaus architecture. The expressionist architects developed a distinctive form or ornamentation, often using rough, angular or pointy elements. They were meant to express the dynamic of the period, its intensity and tension. To me the people who actually built those buildings had a very hard job.
Rio & Fondamenta della Misericordia, Venezia (Italia)
A new tribute painting of Saint Teresa of Calcutta by British expressionist artist Stephen B. Whatley.
Born in Albania, Mother Teresa (1910-1997) answered an early calling to serve God, joining the Sisters of Loreto in Ireland in order to learn English , with the intention of becoming a missionary.
In 1946 on a train she felt she heard from Jesus, "Come be my Light...I cannot go alone" - and devoting her life to helping the poor, the homeless and the dying in India, she became the Mother to the Poor.
When she had taken her religious vows in 1931 she chose the name Teresa after Saint Teresa of Lisieux - and like many, including Saint Teresa of Lisieux , she had experienced throughout her life, a struggle with faith, even feeling separated from God - a darkness that troubled her and maybe drove her on with her good work.
She had opened her first hospice in 1952 and expressed her wish that a "a beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels - loved and wanted".
She was proclaimed a Saint in 2016 by Pope Francis ; two miracles of healing of cancer in 1998 and 2008 being attributed to her.
The artist - a Catholic convert since 2011 - created the tribute through the intensive research, photographic references and the prayers that generate all his work.
"Through darkness into light...humbly I hope my painting represents the eternal light that will forever be Mother Teresa's reward in heaven - and I pray for peace and any healing for all who view the image, faith or no faith" - Stephen B. Whatley, London, UK, April 2023.
Saint Teresa of Calcutta. 2023
Oil on canvas, 30 x 24in/76 x 61cm
Artist Stephen B. Whatley in May 1999, in Covent Garden, London, UK : "….a happy moment - I had just been to Buckingham Palace to collect my oil painting "The Grand Staircase, Buckingham Palace" (still wet) ; which I had painted a few days earlier , over two days, at the foot of The Grand Staircase.
An awesome, surreal experience; rather like creating inside a large velvet jewel box. The silence was beautiful; aside from the distant sound of the Changing of The Guard.
The painting was one of two paintings of Buckingham Palace commissioned jointly by the Royal Collection & London Underground Ltd, to be reproduced on posters advertising the Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace that year all over London Underground so there was an urgency to get it to the London Transport Museum (in Covent Garden) - who then took possession of the painting; to arrange production of the posters.
I hope to finally get to re-photograph this painting digitally this year."
"The Grand Staircase, Buckingham Palace". 1999
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30in/102 x 76cm
Collection of The London Transport Museum, London, UK
The latest painting by expressionist artist Stephen B. Whatley:
HM King Charles III & HM Queen Camilla - Coronation Tribute. 2023.
The artist was moved by the evident devotion of the new King and his Queen.
Inspired predominantly by screen shots the artist took from the BBC television broadcast of this year's Coronation and drawing upon studies he personally made in front of the Crown Jewels in the Jewel House in the Tower of London, in 2000; whilst undertaking his Tower of London commission of 30 works.
A modern portrait for a new reign.
The artist's vibrant oils are known from his Royal commissions - two paintings of Buckingham Palace for The Royal Collection Trust, painted on location and reproduced in the 1999 and 2000 advertising campaigns for the Summer Opening of The Palace; and a series of 30 paintings for the Tower of London, commissioned in 2000, colourfully charting its Royal history.
The 30 oil paintings are reproduced throughout the pedestrian walkway that leads from Tower Hill Station to Her Majesty's Tower of London - as a permanent art exhibit open daily since March 2001.
HM King Charles III & HM Queen Camilla - Coronation Tribute. 2023.
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30in/102 x 76cm
I find today that it is the Feast of The Holy Innocents, perhaps the youngest of martyrs......the day after selecting to pay tribute to the Divine Child Jesus (to whom I began a Novena on Christmas Day) by creating this pastel drawing- humbly I feel lead through prayers...life is full of discoveries & I pray it gives feelings of love and peace.
The image and history of the 20th century devotion originating in Columbia, that along with prayers, inspired it is in the book Illustrated Book of Jesus (William J Hirton & Co, 2011). The original statue portraying Infant Jesus dressed in pink, with arms outstretched to welcome all, dates from the 1940s…..Peace
~ Stephen B. Whatley, Catholic Artist, December 28, 2018
Novena to the Divine Child Jesus: www.ewtn.com/devotionals/prayers/Novena_to_Divine_Child_J...
Divine Child Jesus. Christmas 2018 by Stephen B. Whatley
Pastel on paper; 16.5 x 11.5in/42 x 30cm