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| "Trees of the Field", 30 x 22, watercolor on paper |
This is the largest painting I've done to date and I almost dumped it!
I was asked by my church, BayMarin Church, to participate in a series of lectures and artistic presentations based on NT Wright's book, Simply Christian. This painting was to reflect the pastor's talk on the chapters in the book about the Bible and what it means to us. A little caveat is that I was to take something from the artist's work from the previous week and incorporate it into my painting.
The week's previous artist chose to do a landscape based on "Common Ground" as he interpreted it.
I interpreted his landscape as the Old Testament--fertile, beautiful and big in its scope (his painting was 60 inches!). I thought I'd try and represent the New Testament as something that has its "roots" in the Old, but with with the acceptance of Christ, we can now experience the world in its full flower. The path through the middle represents the clear road through this life with our Saviour.
Although the title of this painting is from the Old Testament (Isaiah 55:12), I thought it harkened to this union we can have with Christ: You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands."
