Artworks Epiphany
This Feast Day, our artworks include paintings and sculpture from our parishioner artists.
We invited parishioner-artists to create an offering(s) around something that is commonplace that has transformed during 2020. It may be an Epiphany that has come to them. It may be how the time of Advent Rest transformed them. It may be simply something that inspires them.
Participating Artists
Chuck Darling, Lauren Hanisian, Eleanor Hardy, Krista DeVaul
Each piece of art is described by the artist below:
Natural Bridge (oil on canvas board 12" x 16") I like arches, either natural or manmade. The blue shades of the rocks and the arch are not their natural color, but I felt it worked well against the sky. Also, the blues make a nice background for the fall tree colors. Looking up is always good. Turkey Run Late Fall (oil on canvas 16" x 20") This is one of a pair of paintings I did of Turkey Run State Park in Indiana. I like that while the painting shows the coolness of the late fall in the woods and river there is a warmth and hope as the sun hits the bare trees in the background.
Canterbury Cross These are representations of two of my bedrock beliefs that entered my soul by surprise, as epiphanies usually do. One is that God is actively present in his constant and loving creation of the natural world, of which we humans are a part. The other is that the powerful symbol of the cross inspires our faith and calls us to proclaim it, just as it has inspired Christians for over 2000 years. We are one with them. Evergreen in snow Eleanor says her inspiration for this painting was the Season of Advent.
God is with us Image of Rev. Joyce Keeshin praying in narthex on a Sunday morning. I had the honor of witnessing the very small, intimate and yet distant way we find ourselves being Church in these days of COVID-19. I was inside the building in a way I had not been in so long. And with people I care about so much but haven’t been able to see in the flesh. They were creating a way for God to be amongst us, even with distance. These services and the work the Clergy and Staff are doing to connect us all is a labor of Love and I have had an incredibly unique seat to watch this last year, both as a spouse of clergy, a parishioner and an artist telling the story. They Say She is a Dreamer Image of my daughter, Paige, age 9, during the year of COVID-19. She decided she wanted to come to one of my photo sessions of her friend. She understood she needed to wear her mask and sit at a distance. Paige brought her journal to sketch and write in. She just wanted to see a friend in person and be outside. Don’t we all? Even in this strange time, she is thriving, striving to live her best life and dreaming of a time when we all can be in close connection with family and friends. If I have to connect this one to Epiphany, it would be a moment when I realize she will be alright. Mother and Child (watercolor) Showing the connection of a mother and child has always been very important to me. As I witness each Christmas, Jesus, God with us, coming into the earth and making Mary a mother. He was vulnerable and human and depended on her love and care. He also transformed her in a way she would never be the same as she was. I also want to hold a place for those who are mother’s in their heart- have lost children, pregnancies or have had struggles conceiving. I have always held them especially in my heart and prayer life. Epiphany Art
by Chuck Darling
by Chuck Darling
by Lauren Hanisian
Editor's note: Lauren submitted both a poem and this sculpture.
by Eleanor Hardy
by Krista DeVaul
by Krista DeVaul
by Krista DeVaul
Image credit: Star of Bethlehem Quilt, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=56307.