I have painted a few of these beloved images of Vietnam, and since they have sold, I am painting more.
Paintings
Forest glades through which I wish to wander…
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, painter of the 1600’s inspired this lovely madonna with his “Rest on the Flight into Egypt”. I hope he can forgive me for this slightly modern bent on his lovely Mary.
Lately, I have been working on potential program covers. No decisions made as yet.
You are not seeing double; same subject as posted earlier, but in a smaller format.
A Venetian Renaissance painter, Giovanni Bellini produced many sacred images in the 1400’s. His images of the Mother of Jesus are all delicate and sensitive, which I have echoed in a more modernistic style. This Image is from a work called: “Madonna and Child” but it seems there are many of Bellini’s works so titled.
Sorrowful Mother of Jesus
Well, the actual painting has a little more pinkish lavender to it, but my camera seems not able to digest reds.
I am Sister Maresa Lilley, a member of the Sisters of Notre Dame, located in Chardon, Ohio, USA. For many years, I have enjoyed a passion that permits me to reflect upon simple reality with a brush in hand. To capture a simple essence on canvas and to discover inherent beauty is a daily immersion. While busy with teaching, or administration, or other various roles of my past, I found the quiet pursuit of pushing creamy oil paint into some kind of meaningful arrangement a soulful refreshment. I hope that through this blog, you also can enjoy a fresh look at grace and charm in the ordinary.
The Sisters of Notre Dame of Chardon, Ohio, belong to an international congregation of more than two thousand apostolic women religious. We are one in mind and one in heart for the transformation of the world in Christ. 