These galleries contain my paintings from the last five years. I also publish poems, and you can find links to them, and accompanying prose, by clicking here or on the menu link above.
Click below to visit the various galleries. You can pray with these images by using Visio Divina, a version of Lectio Divina that focuses on images, rather than words.
Prayer Book Pages
I continue to add to my illuminated prayer book, and use all of these pages when I pray. I hope that they help you in your prayers.
Illuminated Morning Prayer
When Covid began in 2020, I started painting again. Stuck at home, I wanted to illuminate the rite of Morning Prayer, since both I and my church would be using it for awhile. At first I thought that it would be only a few months of online church. Instead, an entire year past before any of us participated in a eucharist. The Rite of Morning Prayer became very important to me at that time. The images in this series are all pages in the little book I created for the rite.
Illuminated Lectionary, Year A
Every Monday I try to make a painting to illuminate the following Sunday’s lectionary. I started in August of 2020, when Year A was more than half over. I haven’t liked every week’s painting, and won’t present the ones I don’t like here, so there will be some weeks missing. I intend to go back and repaint the pieces for these missing weeks in future years, when I will also add in the first two thirds of the Year A lectionary.
Illuminated Lectionary, Year B
Every Monday I try to make a painting to illuminate the following Sunday’s lectionary. I haven’t liked every week’s painting, and won’t present the ones I don’t like here, so there will be some weeks missing. I intend to go back and repaint the pieces for these missing weeks in future years.
Illuminated Lectionary, Year C
Every Monday I try to make a painting to illuminate the following Sunday’s lectionary. I haven’t liked every week’s painting, and won’t present the ones I don’t like here, so there will be some weeks missing. I intend to go back and repaint the pieces for these missing weeks in future years.
Practicing the Presence of God
A few years ago, I created a series of images to accompany Brother Lawrence’s Practicing the Presence of God. I created a chapbook that contains a transliteration of the whole text of Practicing the Presence of God, and twenty-eight images. If you would like to download a copy, please click the image below. I’ve also created prayer cards with the quotes and images that I like the best. They’re meant for use during times of private devotion. In the following days I’ll be putting up separate posts featuring these cards, with some commentary.
