More Prophetic Paintings

Experiments in new Media for Prophetic Paintings

A wise artist once said

“Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.” – Picasso.

Sometimes we just need to show up, and make ourselves available for inspiration to strike. When I'm in the right space, usually a prayer time with worship music playing, an image springs to mind and remains until I can get it onto paper. After many years of (pretty bad) attempts at painting with poster paints and acrylics, I began experimenting with other media and trying to improve.

The image above is called 'The River of Life', representing the teeming abundance of life in the Kingdom.

The Heart of Coals picture below is a pastel sketch. This prophetic painting is about the metaphorical hearth of fiery coals that we all carry within us, waiting for Holy Spirit to fan the coals into flames.

Other recent experiments include the line drawing (below) of St Peter's Loudwater. The church site has a number of wells upon it, one of them located inside the Old Vicarage. There has been a church on this site for over two hundred years, built to serve the communities that surrounded the many paper mills strung along the nearby river. The original Georgian part of the building was built in the same architectural style as the surrounding mills, and in Victorian times the building was extended to provide a larger meeting space.

The drawing is a semi-cross-section showing the deep wells of prayer that have been metaphorically drilled into the ground over the years. St Peters is a praying community, and a thriving parish church.

Another example of experimentation is the oil pastel sketch pictured below that was produced during a creative retreat in 2018. This was a very busy time of life, and a friend and I had come away for a few days of refreshment and creative fun. I had recently heard an excellent talk by a young teacher called Sam Granger, about the five small stones that David used to defeat Goliath. The stones were insignificant in the natural, and yet incredibly powerful under the power of Holy Spirit. Sam challenged us to think about what our five small stones might be. I came to the creative retreat feeling a bit flat, and thinking about creativity. The sprouting horse chestnut represents a fresh time of artistic inspiration, and also a reminder that being creative for God was an important part of the Christian walk.

This sketch came very quickly, and has been a reminder ever since that God places gifts in our hands as powerful spiritual weapons. Even if we don't always understand what He's doing, or wants to do through us!

#obediencebeforeunderstanding.

Right now, do you know what your five small stones might be?

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