Brenda Stichter, artist

Perfect Peace II  Friends of my daughter are planning to get married, and this couple wants to use some of my artwork as they establish their new home. (Woo-hoo!) They spent some time looking at some of my paintings, and chose some that they were drawn to, including one that is no longer available. So I decided to "repaint" Perfect Peace .  As I started working on it, I was working with the ideas of peace, and what it means to me now during the COVID shutdown period. I thought of how, in this confusing and complex world, peace still comes from keeping my eyes on Jesus - through the veil, so to speak.  Sold 6" x 6" Painted with the finest quality heavy-body acrylic paint on acid-free, heavy weight Fabriano watercolor paper Ready to frame Click here to view or purchase via my website. Vertical development in this painting pulls eyes upward. The gaps in the veil still show bright glory beyond. And to me, the dotted lines (so to speak) can r...

  New Every Morning #42 Lamentations 3:22-23  English Standard Version " The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;  his mercies never come to an end;  they are new every morning;  great is your faithfulness." 6" x 6" Painted with the finest quality acrylic heavy-body paint on Art Bite panel Ready to frame Click here to purchase via my website. Holman Christian Standard Bible   ח Khet " Because of the Lord’s faithful love  we do not perish,  for His mercies never end.  They are new every morning;  great is Your faithfulness!" King James Version " It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.  They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness." Living Bible "his compassion never ends. It is only the Lord’s mercies that have kept us from complete destruction. Great is his faithfulness; his loving-kindness begins afresh each day." Amplified Bible " It is becau...

More Than Watchmen, triptych  Psalm 130:5 - 6 "I wait for Yahweh; I wait and put my hope in His word. I wait for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning— more than watchmen for the morning ." Mark 4:37 - 41 37 A fierce windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking over the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. But He was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion. So they woke Him up and said to Him, “Teacher! Don’t You care that we’re going to die?”  He got up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Silence! Be still!” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm. Then He said to them, “Why are you fearful? Do you still have no faith?”  And they were terrified and asked one another, “Who then is this? Even the wind and the sea obey Him!” The passage from Psalm 130 has been on my studio wall for a couple of weeks now. I have been considering how abstract landscape paintings can express more than just the idea of a landscape, and today I tried a ...

Far Kingdom After nearly a week trying to name and blog about this painting, I finally gave up and posted it on Instagram and Facebook as "Untitled", and asked for title suggestions. I felt that my longing for my eternal home and my (sometimes distant) hope were showing up in this landscape.  One friend suggested "Far Kingdom" in reference to a song by the Gray Havens , and I am loving that suggestion! One of the lines in that song that touches me speaks of the Far Kingdom knowing my name.  36" x 36" Painted with artist quality heavy-body acrylic paint on 1.5” deep gallery wrapped canvas Click here to purchase via my website. John 14:1 - 3  “Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, so that where I am you may be al...

Your Royal Majesty Update: Sadly, this painting has been ruined. I decided to protect the gold leaf and put a varnish on the entire painting. (I usually do not varnish acrylic paintings because I like the varying surfaces.) When I did, the gold leaf crackled and began to tarnish. It finally blackened and began to rust in places. How ironic, that I tried to protect it by covering all of it, and instead I destroyed the vulnerable part.  This painting has been waiting patiently for a title and blog post - or maybe not so patiently! The thing is, I am not at all sure I can put into words what I have been working through as I painted it - at least not in such a way that it will make sense. (Not an uncommon problem for me, I am afraid!) Destroyed 9" x 12" Painted with the finest quality acrylic heavy-body paint on canvas panel, gold leaf Ready to frame Adding gold leaf I was reading through the New Testament book of Revelation, and was continually amazed by the des...