Arts and Music at Redeemer

“Station VI – Veronica Wipes Jesus’ Brow”, needle sketch on hand-painted wool felt, 20″ x 9″, ©Anne Louise Gillilan

Anne Louise Gillilan’s three entries come to us all the way from Alaska! This is Anne Louise’s vision of the sixth station of the cross. She says:

All my life I have pursued art in one form or another, finding expression in clay, paper, paint, pencil, fiber and thread, often mixing mediums to express ideas. Seven years ago I started studying Art/Design and embroidery through City & Guilds of London at the Gail Harker Creative Studies Center in Oak Harbor, Washington. I have done extensive research into historical embroidery, interviewed embroiderers from around the world, and studied historical and contemporary embroidery in England.

Each piece is custom designed and is unique. As I work on a design I use words, pictures, and other inspirations to convey an expression of the place or individual for whom I am designing. The images in the Stations are inspired by Byzantine art and are intended to evoke emotions of the humanness of Christ as He faces His death.

To learn more about Anne Louise and her work, please visit her website.

Untitled (Lily and Shroud), 6″ x 4″ (framed to 14″ x 11″) color photograph, ©Sue Christensen

This photograph is part of a series (of which we’ll be displaying 3) entitled Passion Play. Sue says:

This work was created as part of my portfolio for graduation from the New England School of Photography. What began as a search for God in nature, led, with the guidance of a good teacher, to an exploration of churches, and then to self-portraits.

The series is entitled Passion Play, because it follows the journey of Christ through His passion, death and resurrection. Christian symbols such as lilies and ashes are incorporated in the images. Colors and light are also crucial in relating the story. The images are printed small to preserve their intimacy and to invite you, the viewer, to come close and share in that intimacy and the journey.

 

It is not my intention to present myself in the place of God. At times, when creating the work, I thought of myself, perhaps, as one of the women who knew Christ during His earthly ministry. The Bible also talks of us having to take up our cross, and die, in order to live. The road Christ followed is one all who believe in Him must trod.

These images are filled with hope. There is suffering, there is death, but there is light and in the end life, rebirth. They are a visual prayer.

To find out more about Sue Christensen and her photography, please visit her website.

Die by the Sword, 30″ x 40″, oil on canvas, ©Matthew Whitney 2006

Matthew says, “This painting deals with the speaking of Christ to his disciple: “Those who draw the sword, die by the sword (Matthew 26:56)”, during the Second Station of the Cross, The Betrayal of Judas. It is a visual meditation on Christ’s words, and of violence and war being the result of a failure of human understanding and comprehension of the power of the Cross.”

You can see more about Matthew and his work on his website.

This is the postcard announcement for our upcoming art show (our first group show) Visions of the Cross. We had several wonderful entries and I’m very excited about the quality of the artwork we’ll be displaying. I hope you will come and see it for yourself.

I’ll be posting a little bit about each of the seven accepted artists over the next week, so be sure to check back.

Peace,

Angela