Painting By Faith Not Sight

The outsider Bahamian folk artist Amos Ferguson said, “I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight.”

All Art is an Apprenticeship

I think painters and writers have a lot in common, maybe more than they think or have thought of.

Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces

The thought of “finding beauty in negative spaces” intrigues me as a visual artist, a model sinner in need of big scoops of grace, and as an average everyday person – if there is such a thing.

Walk On

The Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy said, “A man who professes the teaching of Christ is like a man carrying a lantern before him…

To Be Known

As artists or everyday people, there’s an undeniable beauty revealed when our superficial facades of strength are relinquished and the myth that Christians have it all together is exposed for the lie it is.

Artists are God’s little pickpockets

If we choose (and we do have a choice), the art we create and share can have the audacity, the dramatic suddenness to move people, to be a bit impolite perhaps and so disquieting that it challenges fixed perceptions and perspectives.

The Immeasurable Distance

This is more about what I see in my own heart and the world around me, the immeasurable distance between what is read in the Bible and the practice of the church and Christians.

The God of Ordinary People

That’s how this extraordinary God is revealed and encountered in the peaks and valleys of everyday circumstances and the ordinariness of life.

Living a Creative Lifestyle

We talked about how people who aren’t or don’t consider themselves artistic or creative can actually live a creative lifestyle. I like that because it’s inclusive and not exclusive.

We Are All In The Gutter

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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