How could I forget?
January 26, 2008 · by Christine
I was perusing Jan Richardson’s website yesterday and was reminded that she has her own hand-bound book of reflections for Lent called The Garden of Hollows: Entering the Mysteries of Lent and Easter. I actually have a copy on my shelf which I ordered back before Advent so it is now sitting in my prayer space waiting for the season to open. It has that beautiful handmade quality on nice paper, sewn signature, and includes 25 pages of Jan’s reflections and her evocative charcoal drawings to accompany them. I love supporting independent artists and Jan’s work continues to be very meaningful to me, so I encourage you to head over and purchase a copy for yourself.
In addition, Suz reminded me in the comments of my last Abbey Bookshelf post of The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus’s Final Days in Jerusalem
-Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts
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January 27th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
i was just at mind sieve visiting sunrise sister and told her i was casting about looking for my lenten practice. thanks for the suggestion. i just popped over and ordered jan’s book. i enjoyed her advent thoughts so much, i decided to give this one a try.
thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge and inspiration!
January 27th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
great lucy, we’ll have to compare notes as I have not read through it yet myself. I am also contemplating my Lenten practice, lots of ideas swimming around my heart!
January 27th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
jan’s work looks wonderful…do i sound a little excited? i have been looking for some “funky” christian art and i am in love with her collage work. my finger is getting ready to order both a book and some notecards.
any other art ideas, christine and others? i am in the midst of planning two retreats and i am wanting to give christian art equal time…most is so dull to me. you had so many good images for our collages, christine.
January 28th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Hi Suz, I think you will love Jan’s work. You are right though, there isn’t a lot of really good Christian art. I do like some of the contemporary icons at http://bridgebuilding.com/ and Ministry of the Arts at http://ministryofthearts.org/ has some nice things as well. Hope that helps. I get my collage images mostly from Spirituality & Health magazine and National Geographic.
January 28th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
thank you so much (one-handed typing here…a little carpal tunnel). Great sites. Interestingly, we have minimal real art but the best piece is a Lakota Jesus by Father John Guiliani. i simply love it. the halo radiates and his sweet little eyes follow you all around the room. i am so excited that i can get a whole lot of these inexpensively! he actually wrote us a letter when we bought us and sends us a christmas card. very sweet. he likes to know the people who buy his work. they are pretty on the site but this is dazzling in real life with tons of little individual seed beeds, which i love, of course!
thank you thank you!