About Paintings
I paint, therefore I blog. Thoughts and inspired ideas are discussed here. The reason I paint, the spiritual aspects of my work and how God speaks to me.
Things Seen
So I shall cover the canvas with blue and then slather it with the richest of browns, then I shall cut into it with lines of purpose. Then the light will fall. Yes, the light will fall.
Rolling Hills
I set about to capture the glory of the burnt braken and the strong light of the winter landscape but as I laid down colours I got excited and inspired and it wasnt long before I found myself with a…
When the Light came down
Seeing how the light was falling on the tiny rock pools around the coast, I set about to capture the overwelming presence of it. Everything changes when the sun comes out; spirits lift and the world looks better. These small…
The Throne Room
I had it in my heart to paint the Throne Room of Heaven and started my research with looking at Revelation chapter 4 where we read a description of this very thing. It soon became obvious that the main theme…
Rejoice
There is fresh work emerging in the Kent studio. It is a time of rolling mist just now on the Island while the place tries to determine what season to be in. It rolls in low and sometimes the cloud…
The Invitation
It has always been my intention to write about this work but recenty I was sent a recording of a radio interview in which I talk about this very painting. So here it is. “In conversation with Judith Ley, first…
The Mist had come in
The mist had come in, touching, invading and chilling all in it’s path. Familiar things were all distorted and enlarged, it would be easy to walk into fear. But the sun was out too. Warming, penetrating, turning those fearful things into things…
Bleak
It was bleak up there in the hills in the middle of winter but looking for inspiration I had deliberately gone out to be in the elements. Battling against the icy wind up on the high ground I saw a…
Preparing for a masterpiece
'How wonderful would it be if God’s glory and Holiness got all over us to the extent that everywhere we went and everything we touched spread His glory about, and in turn brought glory back to Him?’
Seeing as God see
As a Christian artist my prayer is to see things as God sees them or to have my spiritual eyes open...
