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Mothering Sunday – art

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Here are some of the paintings I’ve done that might possibly be useful for Mothering Sunday, if you half shut your eyes. Help yourself if you like them.

Mary hugging Jesus after the resurrection when he comes downstairs from seeing the disciples in the upper room.
It’s a hug. It could be the holy family, or the Trinity, or just a hug.
Ruth and Naomi
This one’s called ‘the one with the crumby dog’ and features the woman with the sick child who answered back. You go, mamma bear!
This is Mary and Joseph, just after Joseph wakes up from the dream in which the angel tells him they have to leave everything and run to Egypt.
Another Holy Innocents picture – hiding from the soldiers
If you really look you can see the four women who each played a vital part in saving the baby Moses. But you might not find them because women’s roles in salvation history aren’t always celebrated.
Mary and Elizabeth, both discovering that mothering is best done in solidarity rather than alone.
From my line drawing Stations of the Cross – Mary and John are made into a new family

Preaching with All Ages

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I got an opportunity to pull together some of the things I’ve been going on about for the last decade and make them into a book. I just got my author copies, so it must be real. The book is about reflective practice and preaching, particularly all age preaching. And it has pictures!

You can hear me talk about the book on this podcast, courtesy of the Church Times.

Pictures for Holy Week

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Ages ago I started a pen and ink drawing of Westcott House, intended as a discipline and a challenge: I was going to do ten minutes a day, as a way of taking a break and slowing down, and to challenge myself to do something detailed rather than expansive. But it’s my last week working at Westcott, so I’ve declared it finished. It’s already in a frame and on its way to its forever home.

Madonna and child, after ‘Rosie the Riveter’, with the Magnificat in gold leaf.

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Madonna and child, as Rosie the Riveter, with the text of the magnificat in gold leaf