Spirituality
Lowering the Paralytic, oil on canvas, 105 x 135 cm.
The painting looks at prayer through the trust, faith, vulnerability and powerlessness of the Paralytic as he is lowered through the roof to be healed by Jesus.
It also reflects on those coming together in order to lower him, suggestive of the possibility, and importance of coming together in prayer as a means of presenting someone’s needs before God.
There is also the suggestion that they draw on aspects of their own disparate lives to do this. For example, a woman in green, holding her dead baby uses black mourning bands to help lower the paralytic; cleaners use their vacuum hose, and a partygoer assists with tinsel, and yet another man twists his clothing into a rope.
The Rehearsal, 67 x 127 cm, oil on canvas. (£4,300)
An imagined break in a 'Passion Play' rehearsal, emphasising not hypocrisy, but the sense of being the best version of oneself in Church and relaxing into normality once out of Church, a gentle glimpse beneath the surface.
The Last Supper, 82 x 126 cm, oil on canvas.
In the moment of the breaking of the bread, the wall hangings fall away and a different reality is revealed. The figure of Christ, flanked by Peter, John and the other Apostles, transfixes us with a loving gaze, inviting us to share in the meal.
The Prodigal Son, oil on canvas, 73 x 73 cm, £1,200.
A moment of awakening to the reality of his life, living amongst the pigs in his care. The remnants of his sumptuous clothing soiled and buried under the detritus of life and the sleeping pigs. But this awakening is the first step of hope rather than despair.
End Times, oil on canvas, 2.2m x 10m.
(St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Aldershot, Hants.)
A commissioned church mural and reflection on the end of the world as a joyful homecoming facilitated by the relinquishing of idols.
