Awaiting Resurrection

Awaiting Resurrection

18" x 36"

Acrylic on canvas, ornate frame

$900

After I came through a time of exhausting spiritual warfare, I turned to some reference photos taken in a cemetery in Huntington, West Virginia.  Painting this lovely statue brought me such peace.  I've got the feeling she represents Mary, the Mother of Jesus.  I have asked others why she would be holding a wreath on her arm, and their answers seem to match mine.  We're not sure, but it looks as if perhaps this is the crown of the redeemed which this person, over whom she is standing, will receive in heaven...  Why it would be flowers, I don't know.  (Since then, I have found many cemetery statues of angels holding floral wreaths, as well.)  I love her pensive stance, and the sweet patience she exudes.  She helped me to breathe deeply and bring my soul to a more restful place.  I hope she metes out the same kind of peace and well-being to you.

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
For the Lord Himself will come down from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.  After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.  And so we will be with the Lord forever.

Come Away

Come Away

Original SOLD

Framed canvas giclees

20" x 28"

$300 each plus S&H

Smaller Prints are available

This graceful angel monument was originally painted in the blues you see here.  When she went to the printer I took the suggestion of an artist at the studio and had her done in other colors as well.  We looked through various shades in the complimentary range and came up with these scorching hot sepia tones, but he gets all the credit for the way the black and white turned out.  He chose to remove all the grays from the background and leave her standing starkly against pitch black, which turned out to be a pretty dramatic look. 

When they were first shown, all three were hung together, side by side, with the blue in the center.  The blue giclee has a black frame; the sepia has a mahogany frame; and the black and white has a white frame; and all are 1" contemporary frames.  The size of the frames is approximately the same as the gray border on the images here.  The giclees are available singly or as a set.