This Week’s Painting
The Rebuke, KPB Stevens, gouache and concentrated watercolors on paper, 2021 I've been thinking about rebuke this week, as the passage from Mark that we'll read this Sunday has one…
Holy Wisdom
Gouache & concentrated watercolors on paper, 2021 I try to make a painting every week, to accompany the lectionary readings. This week, I was thinking about the reading from Proverbs:…
A Cross Project for Lent
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…
This Week’s Painting
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…
This Week’s Painting
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…
This Week’s Painting
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…
This Week’s Painting
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…
This Week’s Painting
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.…
This Week’s Painting
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:…
This Week’s Painting
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…