Where the cross once stood, only mud remains — thrown, plastered, dried into the shape of what is no longer there. I was thinking of the insults levelled at Jesus: sinner, wrong crowd, guilty by association. He never corrected any of it. He was willing to be seen as one of us, to wear what was thrown at him. And it was God who lifted him out of it. Just as he lifted me.
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 the cross once stood, only mud remains — thrown, plastered, dried into the shape of what is no longer there. I was thinking of the insults levelled at Jesus: sinner, wrong crowd, guilty by association. He never corrected any of it. He was willing to be seen as one of us, to wear what was thrown at him. And it was God who lifted him out of it. Just as he lifted me.
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.
