In my garden one wintry day - St Francis feeding the blackbird 539 Faces of Christ is not simply about images of Christ and art. The face of Christ can manifest in so many ways, you see, because His face is not a physical face. It is a construct of divine love. Just like His hands in my vision from a previous blog, Draw Me! . So you could look at anything created and looking closely with an open heart you may see this love, this image of Christ in all creation. Today we had

Finger painting in oils of Christ Crucified The paintings and drawings I have rendered of Christ far outnumber anything else I have done. He keeps popping up. The first one was a black and white image I dabbed onto some cartridge paper using powder paints mixed with water. I only had a box af black and a box of white. At that point I had very few art supplies, and no brushes. I ended up using some cut up, old laddered tights to apply the paint as I was inspired to paint th

Christ at the Creation of the World Sometimes it is refreshing to simply create - to apply paint to a blank canvas without any set plan or idea. To let the brush and paint decide the direction and journey of the painting. I love the anticipation of what might develop, starting to see patterns and objects forming across the expanse and wondering about the amorphous places that have yet to reveal their secret. Discipline versus flow After spending many years specialising in the

Girl with flowers and birds 539... is a collection of images created by the artist over a period of 40 years. Some of the images I still possess, others are commissioned pieces, some have been overpainted, a few may have been thrown into a skip or given away to random people. Some are unskilled, rough, ingenuous and immediate; others are professionally produced icons after more than 20 years of practice in tempera - you may come across some of them in various religious establ