Art & Poetry

One of our wonderful parishioners, Claire, suggests that we spend Lent making and decorating crosses, which we can then use as part of our Good Friday liturgy. Her idea is…

Jesus in the Wilderness, KPB Stevens, gouache on paper, 2021 This painting is a gloss, of sorts, on Stanley Spencer's Jesus in the Wilderness series, which I'll be preaching on…

The Man with the Unclean Spirit, KPB Stevens, gouache on paper, 2021 Continuing with the motif of abstract boxes of color to signify the balance between order and chaos, I…

Simon & Andrew, by KPB Stevens, gouache on paper, 2021 I wanted to show Simon and Andrew at work on their boat in the moments before Jesus called them to…

Nathanael, by KPB Stevens, gouache on paper I wanted to capture Nathanael's quality of openness, improvisation, and honest confusion. I'm also exploring a visual theme of order and chaos in…

Annunciation Color Field 32, Stuart Hobbs, acrylic on canvas. by Stuart Hobbs Sunlight shines on the snow and the light dances and sparkles white and blue and many more colors.…

They Wait for the Baptism of the Spirit, KPB Stevens, gouache on paper Admittedly, this is a fairly surreal painting to accompany the Baptist's words in the Gospel of John:…

1st Sunday of Advent, by KPB Stevens, gouache on paper The painting is a combination of apocalyptic images from the thirteenth chapter of Mark's Gospel. I don't find Mark's apocalypse…

Matthew 25, KPB Stevens, gouache on paper As I painted this, I realized that it could form a kind of triptych with my two other paintings from the previous weeks,…

The Parable of the Talents, KPB Stevens, 2020 As I painted this, I thought mostly of the isolation of the man who buries the one talent (coin) that he's been…