There are flashes of startling beauty along the Silk Road—the golden glow of a sunset illuminating the cliffs of Bamian, Afghanistan; the languid movements of a Uighur dancer; the sheen of an Ushak carpet; the lush green of tea fields above the coast of the Caspian Sea. Along the Silk Road is a 172-page full-color…
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One of the most evocative images in Scripture is the river of life flowing from the throne of God in Revelation 22. The waters are clear as crystal. They flow with restorative powers, a sustaining force that cleanses and renews. This stained glass window for the Hemphill-Craft Center at North Greenville University marries the image of the river of life with Jesus’s teaching that he is the living vine and we are the branches.
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Jesus’s parable of the sower and the seed lends itself so readily to visual interpretation. This stained glass window design was commissioned by Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary for the Ray I. Riley Alumni Center and is suspended from a glass atrium. It’s lit by one of the most brilliant light sources possible—the Texas sun.
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“Color is a shivering, glorious, active thing, a sympathy of poles founded on an exact kind of wavelength repulsion. Color is cagey, only partially knowable; it resists us even as it beckons. Thus the foundation of its perverse charm.” —Jude Stewart in ROY G. BIV: An Exceedingly Surprising Book about Color This is a business…
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One warm summer morning I painted these three peaches sitting on the rickety rail of our back patio. They were perfectly ripe, at their peak juicy deliciousness, and fairly glowed in the sun. I’ve always admired the way that Cezanne was able to capture the weight of objects in his still life paintings. When I…
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Tina Boesch 