ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONS OF SCRIPTURE AND FAITH
After my grandmother passed away, my father was given a Bible as a bereavement gift from his employer, Ford Motor Company, and he gave it to me shortly afterward. The Bible was housed in a wooden case, and tucked inside the front cover was a printed copy of the Master Weaver prayer. Though I was raised Catholic—CCD classes, First Communion, all of it—I had never read that prayer before.
Something about the words stayed with me. Later in the studio, without planning or hesitation, I scrawled the prayer into the wet paint of my next abstract painting. That quiet moment became a turning point.
Since 2003, prayer and scripture have entered my abstract & mixed media paintings, collage art and assemblages intuitively—woven into the work as something felt rather than illustrated, allowed to live within the paint itself.
If you’d like to learn how, when, and why scripture first entered my work, you can read more here.
