Visionaries: Christianity and the Visual Arts

Christianity and the Visual Arts

At the Table: Kerry Holland

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Kerry Holland

  1. Celadon Blue, 54.5cm x 64.5cm, Oil and mixed media on canvas

2. Sunrise Bowl, Stoneware with porcelain, shino glaze, reduction fired.

3. Blue spotted White Bowl, Southern Ice porcelain bowl.

Installation arrangement:

Interested in Kerry’s work? She can be contacted on:

email: kerry.a.holland@gmail.com

At the Table: Jennifer Long

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Jennifer Long

  1. Charcoal and Lace, 60cm x 60cm, Mixed media.

In Charcoal and Lace vessels act like silent observers of life and landscape. Grouped as a suite they sit on a threshold seeming to balance between a real and imagined world. Are they looking out or in and what do they observe? Their form and elements of architecture hint at the human presence.

On plywood, collage elements sourced from personally etched rice paper, solvent released images and torn paper have been assembled with oil paint, charcoal and ink, in a still life montage of memory and imagination.

2. Little Brown Jug, 60cm x 60cm, Mixed media.

In ‘Little Brown Jug’ the vessels are part of my collection of life’s fragments. Their scarified forms reveal marks and textures of daily rituals. They hold an abundance which hints at what life offers. Grouped as a suite the vessels of mixed media on ply act like silent observers balancing between the real and imagined world.

3. On the Edge, 43cm x 43cm, Mixed media on ply

In this work  are revealed observations of internal and external landscapes. The vessel is used as a recurring emblem to suggest the human presence. Three vessels perch on a table before a curtained window silently observing life’s passing, their surfaces reflecting the memories and marks of that passage. They balance on the threshold between metaphorical and physical realms.

The image is a collaged work of mixed media – etched and solvent release transfers on ricepaper, oil and charcoal on ply.

Interested in Jennifer Long’s work? She can be contacted on:

E: jenniferlongart@gmail.com

or visit her website at:

W: www.jenniferlong.net

At the Table: Marion McMonaghy

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Marion McConaghy

The Table’s Journey, Mixed media on canvas, 90cm x 120cm

Artist Statement

I painted this image as a way of processing the impact of life changing events. When something you have always counted on, something that you rest on, is swept away. It is then that one looks at what’s left and one’s faith.

 

At the Table: Barbara Niczynski

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Barbara Niczynski

Leaving the Table, Acrylic on canvas, 28cm x 35cm

Artist Statement

A look at grief.  When one leaves a long term relationship, the other is left to grieve at the loss of rituals such as breakfast at the table.  She too must leave the table, and come back with a new ritual that encompasses completeness in breakfast for one. 

I thought of musical notes now missing: the clink of the spoon against the coffee cup, the scrape of the chair, the baritone cough.  I thought about what now must come, a determination to continue and write a new song.

Autopsy Table, Pen and watercolour, 28cm x 35cm

 

Want to know more about Barbara’s work? Contact her on barbniz@live.com.au

At the Table: Murhaf Obeid

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 Murhaf Obeid

The Last Supper,  Acrylic and gouache on canvas, varnished with gold leaf, 110 cm x 190cm.

Artist Statement

My name is Murhaf Obeid, I am from (Homs, Syria)

After I finished my last academy studies in Topography I went to Paulist’s convent in Harissa- Lebanon, in 2001. And I got a bachelor degree of Science in Philosophy and Theology, 2009. Then I studied all the courses to get Master degree in Church Science (marriage and family) in Suggest University, Beirut, but still working on the final research about Paul Evdokimov.

In 2006, I followed an iconography class for about one year by the iconographer: Nicolas Majdalani, in Lebanon, then In May/ 2014, June/ 2015 I went to Minsk- Belarus and completed a 12 days master-class in painting and gelding icons.

I Participated in drawing icons for a book about old Christian fathers, translated into Arabic by Bishop Joseph Jbara, and drawing celebrity’s profile pictures for “The history of Arabic literature” book (written by Hanna Fakhoury)/2008

2014-2016 I was responsible of writing the main  icons of three churches in Beirut, Lebanon.

Want to know more about Murhaf and his work? Contact him on murhafobeid@hotmail.com

At the Table: Marcelien Hunt

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Marcelien Hunt

  1. The Book Study: Table of Contents, 82 cm x 63 cm , oil on canvas

The Book Study

When you chop up the goose at the table, the life is past.  When you chop up a fine wine sitting at the table by over analysis, the delight is past. As we sit at the table to study scripture and chop the passages into pieces of analysis to meet our purposes, we risk losing the life and delight of the soul.

  1. Bare Essentials, 56 cm x 63 cm, oil on canvas

Bare Essentials 

The worldly view of at the table in our current society is fast food and fast pleasures.  Society appears to have lost taking time with family and friends at the table with healthy morsels, conversation, close relationships forming.

  1. On the Table, is it our Lord’s time or your time?   Oil on canvas

Interested in Marcelien work? She can be contacted on:

 marcelien@gmx.com

 

At the Table: Sue Oliver

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Sue Oliver

  1. The Table of Connection,

            mixed media on canvas, 50 cm x 70 cm 

  1. The Table of Preparation,

            Mixed media on canvas, 68 cm x 47 cm

  1. The Table of Hope,

            Mixed media on canvas, 51 cm x 41 cm

A certain contradiction takes place whenever we attempt to perfect and preserve what is created. Objects of great beauty made by skilled hands seem to be in danger of decay or destruction, and if we want to keep them intact, there is a risk that they will need to be locked away to preserve them. Removed. Kept.

The beautiful table, so carefully prepared, is in danger of becoming an arena of destruction as we occupy it to sit, break bread, use cutlery, stain the cloth . . . eating and drinking as we talk, laugh, gesticulate.

In the country kitchen of my childhood we sat on sturdy chairs and ate using everyday crockery and cutlery. The dining room with the polished table and the beautiful chairs was kept for good. Company. Good clothes, the good china and silver, good manners, the best cuts of meat, the best produce, puddings and pies and tarts. Best behaviour. Under the stern eye of ancestors in frames on the wall in their best clothes. It worked. Nothing got broken or soiled or unravelled, and then it was passed down to be kept and preserved. Drawers full of white tablecloths and doilies with no purpose now but to be kept. I find a few with a stain, a tear, a bit of unravelling, and I devise a new way to preserve them.

Wisdom, in the book of Proverbs, kills and prepares the food, dilutes the wine and sets the table. Then she invites all who would come to eat and share and partake. Ultimately, we are invited to commune at the table with our Lord, sharing in the blessing of His broken body and shed blood. Brokenness and blessing comes wrapped together – given by Christ Jesus to us.

At the table of communion, there is a pouring out of oil and water and wine and we are nourished.

Sue Oliver   

Interested in Sue’s work? Contact her on:

Sue Oliver: soliver9@hotmail.com