Category: Beginnings
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Peek Inside – Stretching The Canvases
3 days work condensed to 1:44 seconds for your viewing pleasure! I’ve done it! The preparations are complete and now I am ready to begin painting on the large canvases. In the background, you can see the to-scale test paintings which I have begun. These help me to work out any final decisions before moving…
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Peek Inside Videos – Preparations
Welcome to my world! This is the first in a series of monthly behind-the-scenes videos documenting the process of making the paintings for Zionskirche which will be exhibited Feb – March 2027, in Berlin. In this video I’m preparing the studio, clearing space for the materials to arrive. You’ll get to see: 5:29 minutes
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Thank you!
Well that went much more quickly than expected!! Thanks to 22 generous supporters over on Buy Me A Coffee, you have helped raise 1215€, even more than the 900€ I’d originally hoped for to cover the basic stretch bars, canvas, gesso and paints needed to start work on two paintings for Zionskirche in Berlin…. which…
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History and Hope
This winter, I have the extraordinary privilege of creating two large-scale paintings (2.6 × 4.2 metres) for Zionskirche in Berlin. Exploring the themes of loss and hope, the works are intended as a quiet space for reflection, offering comfort to anyone navigating grief, uncertainty or change during Berlin’s long winter months. They will be in…
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Green Light… or Amber at least
I sat around a table with the pastor, the responsible person for exhibitions and another member of the board of the friends association. The room was filled with the beautiful clutter that only a church can accumulate over the years. An old cross, odd paintings, various files, a coffee machine, thin layer of dust… I…
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A vision of two paintings for Zionskirche
In 2018 I went to a concert (link:Marc Marcovic) at Zionskirche, Berlin. This church is an active supporter of the arts holding regular exhibitions (link:Zionskirche) for local artists. I began to wonder what I would paint for that space given the chance and immediately saw two large canvases either side of the large alter, two…