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Junior Art Group | Palmerston North Art Association | Massey Library | Teachers can paint too | Art Views | CVAN | NGH 2003 | CEGACT | St. James 2004 | NGH 2005 | Real Time | Missionheart | Digital Art Show | Denmark | Austalia Day | BANANA ONE | 2006 Easter Digital | Ladies Luncheon | 2006 Digital Beginnings | 2006 Black Stump | 2006 Art Views in the Hills | 2006 Landmarks | 2006 Wastelands | Banana Belconnen Markets | Affluence | Art Overboard Awards 2007 | Landmarks 2007 | Mellow Fruitfulness | Easter 2007 | Wasteland Travelling 2007 | Belgium | Recylcled /Wastelands | Disposable - Affluence | Caged | Art Overboard Awards 2008 | Forever After | Being Human | Natural Flair Then-where? | Black Stump 08 | C3Monash | Wild | Start | Government House Open Day | BeAN - Kubla Khan | Flairwear Caverns | Bean - Exotic | Government House 2010 | Show of Hands 2010 | Hellenic Club | St. James | Belconnen Ways | BeAN - If Music | Angels in our midst | St James Fun Day | St Margarets Easter | St Margarets 2013 -2014 | Peaceful Landscape | Kings 37th Annual Art Show | Lift Him Up The lolly tree - Choice is Sweet Limited edition giclee print on paper While in Berrima I also saw a shop full of sweets, a profusion of colour
organized and constrained in lines of jars. Many lollies in one jar.
Many jars on one shelf. Many shelves in one shop. A multitude to satisfy
desires beyond the basic needs. It amazed me. It sprang thoughts of
how affluent we are - so many lollies to choose from. It reminded me
of the church - a multicoloured treat. I came across the following bible verse and I felt as though I was
in that place: Having an abundance of choices and a free will is not only like a river flowing freely but it is also like ribbons and leaves dangling in the wind. The tree is shaped like a wine glass a symbol of affluence and a reminder that even our affluence comes from God. When we drink from the cup we remember Christ - the grape voice wining and warning. God’s word is sweeter than lollies. His word builds the tree of life in us and choosing to heed it paradoxically, gives us the greatest freedom. Choice is a sweet blessing
Limited edition giclee print on paper The redemptive pattern – pain for gain Limited edition giclee print on paper The program I used was a 3d software program called “Terragen” where I sculpted the mountains and made the valleys low enough for water. I added atmospheric conditions so that the sky became red and set the water to make it icy….I didn’t finish it in time for the competition so it sat there until the following year. I was wanting to put some land in a cup and when I revisited this image in 2006, and looked at the snowy mountains it suddenly looked like a cool refreshing drink, a sherbet in a wine glass.....so I took it into Photoshop, where I used the mouse to draw a wine glass. As I looked at the image I was making I thought: "Blood red from pure white". Colour on a monitor is different from pigment colour because it is based on light. If you mix the primary pigment colours you get a muddy brown, but if you mix the RGB colours, which are used when choosing colours for showing on a monitor, you get white….white light. White is made from the highest values of red, green and blue. I thought of all the kingdoms that had been paid for in blood and wondered how many people when thinking of a kingdom thought only of a circular crown and what can be held in the hand and not of all the roots/branches that come out from one….all the effects of being “King of the castle”! I thought of leaves and the seasons of kingdoms. Then I thought: “How like God’s kingdom this is.” So I took some of the clouds and turned them into flame wings to represent the Holy Spirit.” So here I have a little piece of the land of mountains and snow and a little piece of the land of sky and fire…… Now that is like New Zealand, the land of my physical birth and Australia, which is the land of my spiritual birth…. Kiwi land you can own…hold in your hand but Aussie land you can only lease! In 2007 I put the image onto a hand. Fingers make a pattern like sun rays so I placed them on the sun - the hands of the Son of God. His kingdom cools the angry heat of violence hurled towards us and is like a refreshing drink. I added another image I had created in Terragen manipulating it by blurring some of the cloud edges and emphasizing the rays to represent some of the tempest and added a pattern of nails like the boundary of a prison fence as another symbol for human violence. The separating curtain between God and people has been torn. God’s anger towards our sin has been appeased. A cup of suffering - the price for a cool refreshing kingdom The trees of the field will clap their hands I took a photo of a beautiful red church door in Melbourne. It was a side door and shut tightly. I saw leaves at the National Art gallery in Canberra, that looked as though they were clapping their hands. In Photoshop, placed the door on a bed of rock and applied filters to a copy of the rocks to make the stylized and symbolic foundation rock bed. The church is built upon the rock and the trees of the field are waiting for the people to come out with joy. Then they will clap their hands too. Crowned One of the ladies, who creates visual experiences for our special church
events, asked me if I would make an art work for the following Easter
display that she was making. She was thinking about using white flowers
and fencing wood. I prayed about what image I should create and barbed
wire with a white rose came into my mind. I thought about the crown
Jesus accepted, a crown of suffering, of earthly boundaries, fencing
in, of the perfect holy and beautiful Son of God whose flesh, like all
flesh was able to be torn. The ‘Rose of Sharon” came into
my mind and I decided to use a white rose to represent the perfection,
beauty and sinless nature of Jesus. My husband had given me some new
computer software for Christmas - Photoshop. I decided to try my image
out on the computer to see what it would look like first. I was pleased
with it, so I decided to have it printed onto canvas. I planned to paint
over it, as I was running out of time, but it looked so good that I
left it as a print. It was so well received that I decided to contribute
one for the following Easter, and so I began sharing what God was saying
through images again as I did when I first became a Christian.
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