Where we place our attention shapes what we find. Holding the posture that God is present in my life has led me to find God in unexpected places — a flower growing in a shape, a bloom in a wasteland, a weed pressing through a crack in the footpath. I don't think God is more present in these moments than in any other. I think God simply knows how to get my attention.
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.
Where we place our attention shapes what we find. Holding the posture that God is present in my life has led me to find God in unexpected places — a flower growing in a shape, a bloom in a wasteland, a weed pressing through a crack in the footpath. I don't think God is more present in these moments than in any other. I think God simply knows how to get my attention.
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.
