Category: Volume 9
Memory And The Creative Process
“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
Canadian Churches: An Architectural History
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
Jim’s Grandiose Big Bible Picture Book
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
Artist – Jennifer Berkenbosch
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
Color Me Hopeful
“Colour has also had a significant role in religious symbolism. One rendering suggests that red stands for blood and sacrifice” It was the early Greek philosophers that taught us the impor... Read More
The Beauty of God – Theology and the Art
Daniel J Treier, Mark Husbands and Roger Lundin, IVP, 2007. This is a fine collection of essays that dusts off many questions about beauty that have not been asked for some time. Beauty was not a welc... Read More
It Was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God
Ned Bustard, Square Halo Books, 2006. First published in 2000 is once again avail-able in a revised and expanded edition. There are seven new essays in this edition including an introduction, with 21 ... Read More
Artist – Paul Cox
Why I paint birds? I have been increasingly interested in painting birds, because of their wide range of mythical and poetic symbolism. At the same time I find myself impressed with early Renaissance ... Read More