I did not initially approach this work with any symbolism in mind. There is no coded message or secret meaning of any kind – the painting is simply a response to an actual experience of staying on t...Read More
“Signs are afoot that theological exploration into film is giving attention to productions well beyond the Hollywood genre and beyond movies given to explicitly religious themes. If film as an a...Read More
Geez, the Winnipeg based ad-free magazine devotes its spring 2008 issue to the theme Art in an Age of Brutality. The articles are woven around a quote from Thomas Merton in Disputed Questions. The sty...Read More
Among the recent books on film and faith we note two here. Ron Austin, In a New Light: Spirituality and the Media Arts, Eerdmans, 2007, and Behind the Screen: Hollywood Insiders on Faith, Film and C...Read More
A very different kind of book. It contains eighteen articles by Hollywood insiders who identify themselves as Christian. There is evident diversity in how that faith perspective is understood and expr...Read More
While I have been working through my latest series, images of hand and planting, I have been struck by the overlaps between the process of painting and the process of prayer. In both, there is a dance...Read More
“This is a time when we need the poetic imagination to bring reminders of who we are and what is important for us. There is a strong thread of this kind of imagining in the biblical narrative....Read More
By Peter Richardson, Douglas Richardson, Firefly Books, 2007 Reviewed by Stephen Rowe. One can appreciate Peter and Douglas Richardson’s sumptuously illustrated (with 400 photographs by John De Vi...Read More
By Jim Paterson, Bastian Books, 2007 This is an unusual book unusual in the way it brings together word and image. Jim Paterson is both the artist and the author who invites us to join him on a journe...Read More
This painting belongs to a body of work entitled For the Birds.The paintings in this series are not exact copies but rather my attempt to record experiences and impressions from nature. They are also ...Read More