Gallery: Words: Let there be light
Images developed during a residency at Hexham Abbey, Northumberland culminating in the Exhibition "Where there is darkness…light".
Paintings draw inspiration both from the exhibition theme which comes from the ‘Prayer of St Francis’, and from other writers whose work provides a vision of hope.
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| Sign of Hope 1 Inspired by a poem by Jan Sutch Pickard |
Sign of Hope 2 Inspired by a poem by Jan Sutch Pickard |
Promise of Peace Inspired by 'A Sign of Hope' by Jan Sutch Pickard |
Candlemas Inspired by a poem by Jan Sutch Pickard |
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| Separate Territories Inspired by 'Church of the Holy Sepulchre' by Jan Sutch Pickard |
Welcome Inspired by 'Church of the Nativity' by Jan Sutch Pickard |
Sunrise (after Hildegard of Bingen) | Children of the Earth (after Hildegard of Bingen) |
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| Caritas (after Hildegard of Bingen) | Light of the World 1 | Moonlit Path (after 'Poem for my Grandchild' by Wanda Barford) | Autumn Leaves A reflection on the fate of books handed down over time, inspired by the Lindisfarne gospels and a poem by J S Pickard. |
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| Anemones A sign of hope amid conflict in Palestine (from words by J S Pickard) |
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