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Hello friends and welcome to a new year! I am excited to be starting off this year with the painting, “The Promise of Spring.” For folks who are new to this blog series, I typically tell the story behind each month’s painting and include a section at the end for those with the Scripture version of my calendar where I …
Hello friends, here we are at the end of the year. This month’s painting backstory is pretty short, but it does invite us into a reflective space. I hope you will spend the next few minutes with me.
Hello friends! Somehow we have made it to the final quarter of the year. This month’s painting has a story that includes some serendipity and surprising connections and I’m looking forward to sharing it with you.
September is a month of change for many of us. Students and teachers return to school, the weather begins cooling, and in the Northern Hemisphere, our days noticeably tilt toward Autumn. This month’s painting is intended to offer peace in the midst of change.
The month of August, in my mind, is full of long, sunny days – the culmination of summer. And the image for this month’s painting gives me that feeling. This was a commissioned piece for a special friend of mine and I’m happy I can tell you the story behind it.
For the month of July, I chose to feature (what I think is) my best work from 2021. It is also the cover for my calendar this year. I painted it while taking a Sabbatical and it was a deeply personal project. “Irresistible Grace” is on a 3-feet by 5-feet large canvas and took about 24 hours of painting time …
Hello friends, welcome to a new year! I am excited to be journeying with you through this year’s calendar and introducing you to the stories behind each piece of art. I believe that hearing the story behind a painting adds to the depth of appreciation for it so I hope to serve you this year by sharing these stories. The …
In June of this year, I shared about Part 1 of this painting. “Come Away with Me” was a three-panel piece (technical name is a triptych) completed for my husband’s cousin. This month, we will look at the third panel in this piece. The painting was commissioned with the intention to bring a feeling of rest at the end of …
November’s piece, “May You Find a Light,” was created in the midst of the first lockdown of the pandemic, when fear ran high and news of people getting sick and dying at alarming rates rattled our world. I found myself longing to pray with my paintbrush; to express my desire for light in the amid the darkness.
“Carried,” the piece for October, was painted in April 2020, in the throes of the first lockdown when everyone was reeling from all the sudden changes. I wanted to paint something hopeful.