A child's painting colours a plaster cross. Then it is smashed. Then, slowly, it is put back together — repaired with gold lines using the Kintsugi method. The sequence traces my own journey: childlike faith, the rupture of young adulthood, and a return that does not erase the breaking but honours it. This is not an adult faith. It is an adult who has come back to the faith of a child.
Breathe, Shine and Seek to Mend #3 is a series of ten small paintings exhibited at Two Folk Espresso, Hobart, 2026. Each work uses the Christian cross — in its presence or absence — to trace a personal journey through the tensions of faith. Drawing on scripture and history, the works explore love and loss, hope and sorrow, restoration and destruction, wonder and rage. Taken together, they are neither a defence of faith nor a rejection of it. They do not retell. They confess.
These paintings use a wide variety of mediums, while all limited by the standard 25cm by 30cm birch board base. They can appear like religious icons, pieces of jewellery, children’s paintings, light shows, vanity mirrors and much more.
A child's painting colours a plaster cross. Then it is smashed. Then, slowly, it is put back together — repaired with gold lines using the Kintsugi method. The sequence traces my own journey: childlike faith, the rupture of young adulthood, and a return that does not erase the breaking but honours it. This is not an adult faith. It is an adult who has come back to the faith of a child.
Breathe, Shine and Seek to Mend #3 is a series of ten small paintings exhibited at Two Folk Espresso, Hobart, 2026. Each work uses the Christian cross — in its presence or absence — to trace a personal journey through the tensions of faith. Drawing on scripture and history, the works explore love and loss, hope and sorrow, restoration and destruction, wonder and rage. Taken together, they are neither a defence of faith nor a rejection of it. They do not retell. They confess.
These paintings use a wide variety of mediums, while all limited by the standard 25cm by 30cm birch board base. They can appear like religious icons, pieces of jewellery, children’s paintings, light shows, vanity mirrors and much more.
