The Garden Gate
30" x 40"
Painted with artist quality heavy-body acrylic paint on 1.5” deep gallery wrapped canvas
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The title has been tricky too. Paradise Lost? No - trite, and it has undesirable connotations. Secret Garden? Same. Fellowship? Friendship? Failure and forgiveness? Consequences? Many of these things were on my mind as I painted, and in the first layer of paint, the phrase Coram Deo ('before the face of God' or 'in the presence of God') appears several times.
The idea of fellowship with each other and fellowship with God having been lost; the cross being the gate that kept man from an eternal state of death (eating from the Tree of Life in Eden) and the door that allows me back to fellowship with God; the green of growth, the leaf shapes and upward movement, the touches of iridescent gold; the tears falling outside the gate; these are thoughts that are part of this work. And hope. Always hope!
Genesis 3
Romans 8
John 3:16-18 “For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. Anyone who believes in Him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the One and Only Son of God."
John 14
The title has been tricky too. Paradise Lost? No - trite, and it has undesirable connotations. Secret Garden? Same. Fellowship? Friendship? Failure and forgiveness? Consequences? Many of these things were on my mind as I painted, and in the first layer of paint, the phrase Coram Deo ('before the face of God' or 'in the presence of God') appears several times.
The idea of fellowship with each other and fellowship with God having been lost; the cross being the gate that kept man from an eternal state of death (eating from the Tree of Life in Eden) and the door that allows me back to fellowship with God; the green of growth, the leaf shapes and upward movement, the touches of iridescent gold; the tears falling outside the gate; these are thoughts that are part of this work. And hope. Always hope!
Genesis 3
Romans 8
John 3:16-18 “For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. Anyone who believes in Him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the One and Only Son of God."
John 14
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