Michael Smither, ‘Doubting Thomas’ (c.1970), St Joseph’s Church, Ngāmotu New PlymouthImage: Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Public Art Heritage Aotearoa New Zealand, 2021 Information Michael Smither was not actually commissioned to create this mural, but in his view the new, well-lit, walls of the recently completed St Joseph’s “cried out for murals.” His first charcoal sketch of the work […]
Daily Devotion for Thursday 1st May 2025
inspiration in your inbox Thursday 1 May 2025 public domainWilliam Blake, ‘Mary Magdalen at the Sepulchre’ | Information This is one of approximately eighty watercolour illustrations to the Bible produced by William Blake for his loyal patron Thomas Butts between 1800 and about 1805. It is not clear how these designs originally functioned as illustrations: […]
Daily Devotion for Wednesday 30th April 2025
John 21© Ally Barrett (www.reverendally.org) and used by permission. Information Ally Barrett is currently a chaplain working in higher education, having spent eleven years in parish ministry, four years teaching practical theology to trainee ministers, and a year as a children’s minister. She is also an artist. This piece is one of several paintings she […]
Daily Devotion for Tuesday 29th April 2025
Information My son helped me stretch this canvas on an old window frame. As he helped, he told me of his friend, Tancred who had passed a road accident on the way to school one day and, in the course of that day, was told that his mother had died in it. His family fell […]
Daily Devotion for Monday 28th April 2025
Kelly Latimore Crucifixion and Resurrection icons. used under licence Information These two icons were conceived as a matched set, and aim to subvert the deadly dualism of light and darkness in the Christian tradition. They provide a meditation on the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ as the work of the liberator God of Exodus. […]
Daily Devotion Sunday 27th April 2025
Give heed, my people, to my teaching;turn your ear to the words of my mouth.I will open my mouth in a parableand reveal hidden lessons of the past. The things we have heard and understood,the things our parents have told us,these we will not hide from their childrenbut will tell them to the next generation: […]
Daily Devotion for April 26th 2025
© Anneke Kaai Series: Apostolic CreedTitle On the third day he rose from the dead….. ascended into heavenwww.annekekaai.nlFB: Anneke Kaai paginaInstagram: annekekaai_kunstenares Information Anneke Kaai- van Wijngaarden, born in 1951 in Naarden, Holland, studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam after a classical education at the Gooise Academy for Visual Art. Her paintings […]
Daily Devotion for Friday 25th April 2025
Matthias Grünewald section of Isenheim Altarpiece, 1512–1516, photo by Gleb Simonov, public domain Information The altarpiece was painted for the Monastery of St. Anthony in Issenheim near Colmar, which specialized in hospital work. It is on display at the Unterlinden Museum at Colmar, Alsace, in France and is Grünewald’s largest work and is regarded as […]
Daily Devotion for Thursday 24th April 2025
Information The artist Sieger Köder was born in January 1925 in Wasseralfingen, Germany. During the Second World War he was sent to France as a front line soldier where he was made a prisoner of war. Once back from captivity, Sieger Köder attended the Academy School of Art in Stuttgart until 1951. After 12 years […]
Daily Devotion for 23rd April 2025
Wednesday 23rd April Easter Wednesday St Luke 24: 50 – 53 Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and, lifting up his hands, he blessed them. While he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven. And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy; and […]