T R A I N

As Father’s Day approaches I have been reminded in the last few weeks of Fathers and their roles in our lives. I grew up with a father who was absent. The details of my parent’s divorce is their story. I was very young. I know that my father did choose to parent his second family […]

S C A L E S

Saul’s conversion was dramatic to say the least! We can read about it in Acts 9: 1-19. His murderous intentions towards Christ’s followers was well known across the land. It would take a supernatural encounter with this Christ, 3 days of blindness, visions from God and faithful obedience from his follower Ananias, to not only […]

t h r e e t r e e s

t h r e e t r e e s Three Trees planted beside streams of living water depicts the deep roots of the believer that plants themselves in the word of God, growing deeper with the presence of God’s word washing over their life, into their life, through their life and in turn overflowing […]

t e a r s 2 . 0 g r a c e

This was my staff devotion for 11th May 2018 In recent times I have found myself challenged to complete old work in order to release the new. Losing someone I used to work with to cancer just before Easter this year heightened this also, and I was and I am confronted more with God’s call […]

K i n t s u g i

Translated to “golden joinery,” Kintsugi (or Kintsukuroi, which means “golden repair”) is the centuries-old Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with a special lacquer dusted with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. I love this practice of repairing the broken in a consumer culture where things are discarded and replaced so readily. Have we lost the […]

c h a i n s

Just moments after the thought came to mind, “I should put up my window”, but before I could act on it, a drink had been thrown through my open car window hitting me in the face and mouth. I was able to safely pull over, but in my confusion and shock I found myself struggling […]

f o r e s t

I often wonder about the view from where I sit. I use to, in the past, sometimes more often than I should have, worry about the view that others had when they saw me. Not particularly healthy I know. But it’s been part of this ones life journey and sometimes our attitudes directed at others, and […]

e y e s

The eye theme continues. In the last 12 months I have explored the eyes through more media than is displayed in this image. All of various scale, some are simple sketches, some with significant detail. Depending on the time I have, some are completed in a single sitting, while others are worked on over days, […]

I a m s e e n

I am in to process of uploading some of my last years writing. Here’s another one, though edited and added to. I suppose that makes it a new blog. Sometimes as I paint I don’t always know what will emerge. Sometimes it is just about applying paint to a canvas, the brush strokes, the colour, […]

j o u r n a l i n g

I have always kept a journal or a visual diary of some kind, well at least since my teenage years. What I wrote in them then was nothing prolific or even prophetic, but was more in line with contacts, birth dates and notes from friends and also including a marriage ceremony message from one of […]

Mother’s day

As an artist my work is often about seeking intimacy with God. To explore what it looks like to seek him and to know him more. To know him more deeply. To be listening to him more intentionally. The more I work on this intimacy with God the more I come to realise it’s more […]

He cares for even the birds

Sometimes I think I need reminding of God’s bigger picture. And as I write this it is obvious that I/we need reminding of this more often than we should, but in the messiness of life, God is so patient with his children. Especially me. What I am coming to realise is that in my own […]

“From Darkness Into Life” 2005

“From Darkness Into Life” pastel on board 50cm x 150cm It was important to begin somewhere in my journey over the last 15 years of my art making so I decided to start here. Influenced by Chiaroscuro – a form of lighting that creates dramatic effects. Artists: Caravaggio, Rembrandt and Bill Henson (who inspired this […]