6” x 6”, Oil on Canvas

6” x 6” x 1” , Oil on Canvas

Growth, 2021, Oil on Canvas, 30” x 40”

My brush first touched this canvas in 2018. The oil painting depicts an oak tree I loved to sit under while in college, my place to think and pray. Just as I started the painting I became busy with the semester’s assignments so I put it away. After graduation, I began again. This time I became too sick to paint. So once again, the painting found its way to the back of my closet. As I recovered from a neurosurgery I tried to paint more, but my coordination had been impacted. This is most notable in the varying brushstrokes and detail among the leaves. Another surgery forced me to stop again. After a year of recovery and physical therapy I was able to come back and finally finish the tree. This painting grew almost as slowly as its subject. We also grew together this painting and I. My skill as an artist varies with each branch, my depth as a person changing like its unseen roots; in one word, growth.

Ten by ten inch print of the original oil painting, “Into Your Hands Father”. The work is a depiction of Jesus’s pierced hands extended out to us in love. Hands open to receive all that we desire to give Him. “Rivers of Living Water” flow from His wounds mixing with His precious blood. “Let anyone who thirsts come to me and drink.” Jesus says in John 7:37-39.

This print makes a beautiful gift to hang in a home as daily reminder of God’s love, or serve as a tool for meditation on the life, love, and mercy of Christ.

Oil on Canvas 8” x 16”