‘He Is Risen!’ — Easter Art

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Recently I’ve been enjoying a free channel on TV: Makeful has 4-hour competitions to find the Landscape & Portrait Artist Of The Year - I’m slowly learning what the panel of judges are looking for - they might say this is a painting about nothing! Where’s the subject?? (That’s the point!!)

Framing the scene: cold, damp stone = Death

Subject: empty space = Resurrection 

Focal points: (near) burial cloth, 
(receding) cross... the horror, grief and darkness fades away with the dawn of Sunday: 

“O death where is your sting?”
— see 1 Corinthians 15



Carving these words into the wood also etched them on my heart in a profound way this Easter:
LOVE TOOK MY PLACE 




Joy created a diorama of Easter story — the cross and the stone sealing the tomb:



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