Paintings
Time to say good-bye to summer.
Here is another attempt at a more ethnic Jesus.
My landscapes tend to be all places that I would like to be. This is a small study for a larger work of 11x 14″ on canvas panel.
This may seem familiar because I showed earlier studies of the same. The day came last Friday when I gave a demonstration and did this larger piece that the studies prepared me for. I had limited time and wanted to sail through so that the demo went smoothly, and it did!
It’s all about essence…
This past month, I received a commission to paint a face of Christ that is 14×11,” and today I put it in the mail to California. I happened to have an ornate wooden frame, antiqued with a bit of gold paint, and it proved worthy of the work.
Here is another kind of Madonna and Child after the previous post. Something in all of us says:
“I must go down to the seas again, To the lonely sea and the sky… “
(John Masefield’s “Sea Fever”)
How I love translating sculpture into paint; can’t get enough of it.
Sometimes the sea can look so ladylike.
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. 