Showing posts with label light in darkness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label light in darkness. Show all posts

Wednesday, 3 June 2020

Thursday

hot, dry weeks of evening sunlight : c.janet driver

posted in celebration of the first garden waste collection after the ‘lockdown’ in March !    :)

...painted some years ago when I noticed the fragile beauty of this dandelion lit up by the evening sun shining low across our sunburnt back garden where nothing much survived except these beautiful seed heads... hot & dry like this year... 

and then when I put this painting in my solo exhibition at Denbies Vineyard someone made my day by buying it as a special celebration of her birthday...  :)

Thursday, 28 May 2020

Friday awaiting Pentecost



“within our darkest night
             You kindle a fire
                    that never dies away...  “          chorus from Taize Community :    www.taize.fr



                                                                 

Saturday, 18 April 2020

Saturday

Magnolias : Janet Driver (oil on canvas)
Our neighbours have beautiful magnolia trees, and one year I happened to see these flowers just as brilliant sunshine poured down into them giving an amazing brilliance against a dense dark hedge...
symbolic, it seems, of what is happening now...light shining in darkness...


I will continue to post daily paintings / photos...at least one a day... while we are still “behind locked doors” 

Wednesday, 18 March 2020

light shining in darkness

Light in our darkness: c.janet driver

I had forgotten and left this painting up after Christmas !
But one or two people were drawn towards it when we gathered for our course on Bible basics...so maybe it was a good oversight :)
... and rather telling just now as one thing after another is having to close down... and there is darkness for many people... Its been stranger than expected: we couldn't find any eggs anywhere...until eventually they were there at the local Co-Op...then the University sensibly went to on line teaching... schools will soon close & a close relative will not be able to complete the school placement part of her training course & its very unclear what that will mean for so many trainee teachers hoping to be qualified & employed by September...perhaps even worse are the consultants & all the medics in hospitals who cannot get tests for this virus even after treating patients who have died & then having to continue on the wards without proper protective clothing, worried about passing the virus on...unbelievable that this could ever be allowed to happen !
And how is everyone going to survive on no pay as everything is closing down ? ...

... so its time to move on...to something much lighter...
...sun shining through stained & etched glass always cheers me up...
the patterns on the glass itself, which has been transformed by deep etching & kiln-fired yellow stain, 
or the beauty of coloured light floating & reflecting right across the floor ...

etched glass detail : janet driver

Saturday, 24 December 2016

Christmas Eve

the mystery of light 
shining in the darkness...
Mystery of light shining in darkness...Madonna & Child #5, Janet Driver

a sense of mystery...
even in the midst
of all the dark and terrible things that have been happening around us

the writer of the fourth gospel
gives us this hope..
that "in him was life
and that life is the light of all human beings..."

not just for a few
but for all...

and that light
which is life
"shines on and on
in the darkness..."
Darfur Madonna: Janet Driver
even in the darkness of trauma for refugees...? whether in Sudan, N Nigeria, Yemen, Syria...or ...?
yes...pinpoints of light, like candles in the darkness, lit by countless volunteers & rescue workers. 
Look for the stories of hope behind the headlines, and discover the light that is still there...
...shining on and on in the darkness...