Painting-A-Day: September 13, 2017

9/13/2017

"Christ the Same, Yesterday, Today and Forever"
Collection: Our Savior's Lutheran Church, Bird Island, MN

Some churches feel called to support the arts, believing that art is an important expressive voice as we wrestle with what it means to be human and to follow God. A few month's ago I received a commission from Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Bird Island, MN. They were anticipating the 125th Anniversary of their church and wanted a commemoration of the journey traveled by their community. They wanted a painting based on Hebrews 13:8 "Christ the same, yesterday, today and forever" and the Hymn "O God Our Help in Ages Past." The words to this hymn are beautiful. I suggested a triptych on those three words from Hebrews "Yesterday" "Today" and "Forever". This is the result.

1 Comment

rachel

12/14/2017 08:49:15 am

Hello, Robyn,
I have just discovered your work and your site. You are featured today on the blog from the Community of Jesus with 3 of your beautiful paintings for Advent. I so wanted to look at the same time of listening to the O Antiphon being sung. I'll have to get this done along with the CD recordings from Community of Jesus. I came here to your website and listened to O Magnum Mysterium and looked into your painting. Our choir is singing the piece. Then I saw your Jesus, the Same Yesterday and Today and Forever. I was stunned. I've been working on a picture for 2 or 3 years. I had a vision to somehow show The New Heaven and the New Earth. It has gone through so many changes. One of my artist friends said I should just stop on it. And yet I feel like I haven't captured the vision I have had. So, I wonder if I should start another painting or keep going on this one. You work in acrylic, right? I've rambled on and on - doesn't seem to be a word limit. . . thank you for your work and your site. I shall be returning often. Rachel