Silent Worship Gallery
So often words are used to express praise and worship to our Creator through song. However, art has a quieter way of expressing thankfulness and joy.
Painting in a Spirit of worship has been an amazing experience. It has caused me to immediately start thinking about God when I first sit down, whereas otherwise, I may have forgotten to turn my thoughts towards Him. You need little more than the thought of God; thinking of Him brings you into His presence like an intimate prayer!
I am consumed with a passion for creating art, which is why I want to use it as an expression of worship to God. To live in a state of constant worship, as I listen for guidance on how best to use my art.
Painting in a Spirit of worship has been an amazing experience. It has caused me to immediately start thinking about God when I first sit down, whereas otherwise, I may have forgotten to turn my thoughts towards Him. You need little more than the thought of God; thinking of Him brings you into His presence like an intimate prayer!
I am consumed with a passion for creating art, which is why I want to use it as an expression of worship to God. To live in a state of constant worship, as I listen for guidance on how best to use my art.
Garden of Gladness
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Original Size: 36x48
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or Schedule a Time
to See it in Person
I hope that you can get your own meaning from this painting; that God can speak to you through it.
I’m trying to but emotions out in colors! These are not just brain thoughts, but emotions stirred up in me by God.
Do you believe that someone’s emotions can be touched by God?
This painting does not just show God as a Gardener of our lives, but as a comfort. Just imagine with me that you are laying in a beautiful field of flowers and God comes and lays beside you and asks you how you feel, what’s on your mind, and then speaks His truth to you. All of a sudden you are completely renewed, like a thirsty ground that just received rain.
I hope this painting can give you insight into who God is. That He is not distant, unapproachable, or inside your head.
Here's the Bible verse that inspired this piece:
“For the LORD comforts Zion; He comforts all her waste places and makes her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of song.” ~Isaiah 51:3
What is this verse saying to you? Do you have a thirsty ground that only God can satisfy?
Your life is a garden and God is the Gardener. There are hidden areas in all our lives that are useless like a rock pile overgrown with thorns, that God longs to dig up and plant His beauty in.
God cares for you so much that He is willing to come into your world, comfort and change you so that all your barren and poisoned soil grows into something beautiful. It can be hard work to turn your life into a garden, but you don’t have to do the work. God is working on us everyday, and longs for us to let go of our anxieties and be rooted in Him. If we ask to be washed by Jesus like water and give every last grain of dirt to Him, He can begin to grow flowers in our lives, and spreading seeds into the lives of those around us.
This is hard to say, but this will be my last painting in my Silent Worship series.
I will not stop worshiping, oh no! I will keep praising God everyday is as many ways as I can. But I realize I have outgrown this Gallery, I started it knowing nothing, just off of an idea from an artist in New Zealand. I said to God when I sat down to paint the first picture, “Use my artwork however you choose”
And indeed He has taught me so much along the way. I have learned that God finds pleasure in my paintings and that He can speak to me and others through them, but I can’t tell you everything that I have learned, it would take forever. But I do feel like everything has been leading up to this painting. I want to continue to make spiritual art, but it shall be a whole new gallery. This piece has opened my eyes to whole new possibilities and I feel like I could explode with happiness and creativity. So from here, the road is longer, and there is more learning up ahead!
I’m trying to but emotions out in colors! These are not just brain thoughts, but emotions stirred up in me by God.
Do you believe that someone’s emotions can be touched by God?
This painting does not just show God as a Gardener of our lives, but as a comfort. Just imagine with me that you are laying in a beautiful field of flowers and God comes and lays beside you and asks you how you feel, what’s on your mind, and then speaks His truth to you. All of a sudden you are completely renewed, like a thirsty ground that just received rain.
I hope this painting can give you insight into who God is. That He is not distant, unapproachable, or inside your head.
Here's the Bible verse that inspired this piece:
“For the LORD comforts Zion; He comforts all her waste places and makes her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of song.” ~Isaiah 51:3
What is this verse saying to you? Do you have a thirsty ground that only God can satisfy?
Your life is a garden and God is the Gardener. There are hidden areas in all our lives that are useless like a rock pile overgrown with thorns, that God longs to dig up and plant His beauty in.
God cares for you so much that He is willing to come into your world, comfort and change you so that all your barren and poisoned soil grows into something beautiful. It can be hard work to turn your life into a garden, but you don’t have to do the work. God is working on us everyday, and longs for us to let go of our anxieties and be rooted in Him. If we ask to be washed by Jesus like water and give every last grain of dirt to Him, He can begin to grow flowers in our lives, and spreading seeds into the lives of those around us.
This is hard to say, but this will be my last painting in my Silent Worship series.
I will not stop worshiping, oh no! I will keep praising God everyday is as many ways as I can. But I realize I have outgrown this Gallery, I started it knowing nothing, just off of an idea from an artist in New Zealand. I said to God when I sat down to paint the first picture, “Use my artwork however you choose”
And indeed He has taught me so much along the way. I have learned that God finds pleasure in my paintings and that He can speak to me and others through them, but I can’t tell you everything that I have learned, it would take forever. But I do feel like everything has been leading up to this painting. I want to continue to make spiritual art, but it shall be a whole new gallery. This piece has opened my eyes to whole new possibilities and I feel like I could explode with happiness and creativity. So from here, the road is longer, and there is more learning up ahead!
Dancing Wings
This Painting was inspired on a walk. As I was walking, a group of birds lifted up from the ground and began flying in all kinds of patterns above my head, almost like a synchronized school of fish! I started this painting as soon as I got home, it reminds me not to take for granted the everyday little things. The things that look simple but could be a dance of worship to God.
How Beautiful the Art that
Brings Good News
Size: 16x20"
Original For Sale: $450
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I almost don't even know how to start writing about this painting, it's been such a long journey.
It's a dream I had really; a moving drawing on a piece of paper. My hand and foot were part of the drawing and as the waves would come in and out, my hand and foot would disappear under the water and then when they reappeared they had switched places, the hand was now a foot and the foot now a hand. The dream was very vivid and stuck with me. Naturally I start looking for its significance.
I had the dream when I was in New Zealand at a time when I was aching to paint but didn't have any supplies. Outside of our plans we ended up at a YWAM (youth with a mission) base, where they were remodeling a room and needed some artwork to hang. After I helped paint the woodwork I would get busy painting with supplies someone happened to have on hand, I even got to paint on a really big canvas. I considered this nothing less than a gift from God. And a confirmation of what I've know since I first began painting, that God has plans to use my art and that I don't have to worry how He will provide or even how it will be used.
During all this, verses in the Bible about hands and craftsmen were really popping out to me.
I have always put a lot of emphasis on my hands being important and making sure not to break my wrists back when I was skating, because then I couldn't draw. But after so much focus on my artwork and putting a lot of importance on it, I had this dream. And what I've learned from it is that although my art is important (which is what the hand symbolizes) my feet are just as important as my hands. And feet to me, have always meant, sharing the good news of the gospel, like the Bible verse says,
"How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, 'Your God reigns.'" Isaiah 52:7
And so I must conclude that my artwork should be a way of sharing with others what God has done in my life! That really excites me, not just because it's nice to have purpose to your passion, but because it causes me to be in communication with God. More than anything in this life, being close to God is our true purpose, where we find true life, and true satisfaction! And as the waves come in and go out, we may experience this in different ways but that's why it is so beautiful, because it is so personal.
It's a dream I had really; a moving drawing on a piece of paper. My hand and foot were part of the drawing and as the waves would come in and out, my hand and foot would disappear under the water and then when they reappeared they had switched places, the hand was now a foot and the foot now a hand. The dream was very vivid and stuck with me. Naturally I start looking for its significance.
I had the dream when I was in New Zealand at a time when I was aching to paint but didn't have any supplies. Outside of our plans we ended up at a YWAM (youth with a mission) base, where they were remodeling a room and needed some artwork to hang. After I helped paint the woodwork I would get busy painting with supplies someone happened to have on hand, I even got to paint on a really big canvas. I considered this nothing less than a gift from God. And a confirmation of what I've know since I first began painting, that God has plans to use my art and that I don't have to worry how He will provide or even how it will be used.
During all this, verses in the Bible about hands and craftsmen were really popping out to me.
I have always put a lot of emphasis on my hands being important and making sure not to break my wrists back when I was skating, because then I couldn't draw. But after so much focus on my artwork and putting a lot of importance on it, I had this dream. And what I've learned from it is that although my art is important (which is what the hand symbolizes) my feet are just as important as my hands. And feet to me, have always meant, sharing the good news of the gospel, like the Bible verse says,
"How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, 'Your God reigns.'" Isaiah 52:7
And so I must conclude that my artwork should be a way of sharing with others what God has done in my life! That really excites me, not just because it's nice to have purpose to your passion, but because it causes me to be in communication with God. More than anything in this life, being close to God is our true purpose, where we find true life, and true satisfaction! And as the waves come in and go out, we may experience this in different ways but that's why it is so beautiful, because it is so personal.
Worshiping Girl
Welcome
Original sold
Original Size: 36x48
11x14 Print Matted to 16x20: $40
8x10 Print Matted to 11x14: $20
4x6 Print Matted to 5x7: $12
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Original Size: 36x48
11x14 Print Matted to 16x20: $40
8x10 Print Matted to 11x14: $20
4x6 Print Matted to 5x7: $12
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This painting represents what it feels like to arrive for the first time in Big Sky, Montana. The idea came from a drawing I drew the night my husband and I rolled into town. The first thing you usually see is Big Sky’s impressive mountain, Lone Peak, but we arrived in the dark and I didn't really know what was in store, I just knew it would be incredible. That is what this painting is about, not what you're seeing, but the magical possibilities your spirit can feel!
Welcome represents something bright that is gifted to you, that you don't reach out to take but rather become a part of.
Welcome represents something bright that is gifted to you, that you don't reach out to take but rather become a part of.
Frosty Fire
Original Sold
Original Size: 30x20"
11x14 Print Matted to 16x20: $49
8x10 Print Matted to 11x14: $29
4x6 Print Matted to 5x7: $17
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This painting was inspired by a hike I was on with my husband Sam. As we looked up the snowy trees from underneath, I thought the branches looked like snowflakes, and so I painted the invisible shapes on a large scale as if the branches grew out as snowflakes.
The ring of fire in this painting is called a sundog, I had no idea they existed until after I was finished with the painting. In fact, only a week or so after I was done with the painting I saw my first sundog out around the sun while I was skiing. While skiing amid the different light reflections cast on the snow partials in the air, it seems as if you’re seeing into the spiritual realm, where beings of light float around as rainbows and glowing mists.
The ring of fire in this painting is called a sundog, I had no idea they existed until after I was finished with the painting. In fact, only a week or so after I was done with the painting I saw my first sundog out around the sun while I was skiing. While skiing amid the different light reflections cast on the snow partials in the air, it seems as if you’re seeing into the spiritual realm, where beings of light float around as rainbows and glowing mists.
Radical Life
Size: 12x24"
Original Sold
I know it may have been nicer to not have words on the doors so that people can bring their own meaning to them, however I wanted to steer people away from thinking that one of the doors is a job opportunity or the decision to move or pursue a relationship. These things just miss the point. I want people to think about how they can choose to open up to light or love or the decision to trust someone or trust God. To think about the deeper things that are all apart of every opportunity. To know we have the choice to enter light or to embrace rest.
As I was painting the vines I realized how one thing must grow out of another and that all good things are rooted in love. Almost as if the vines were telling me something I didn't yet realize, how you can't have rest without light and you can't have light without love. They all must grow from one another.
The painting needed something though, thankfully Sam came up with the wonderful idea of a dove. The dove usually represents the Spirit of God; I like this thought. It really ties it all together, because the Spirit is leading us, speaking to us, and helping us to embrace the things that are before us. It's very fitting to involve the Spirit in this painting, because it's so important to involve the Spirit in our decisions.
As I was painting the vines I realized how one thing must grow out of another and that all good things are rooted in love. Almost as if the vines were telling me something I didn't yet realize, how you can't have rest without light and you can't have light without love. They all must grow from one another.
The painting needed something though, thankfully Sam came up with the wonderful idea of a dove. The dove usually represents the Spirit of God; I like this thought. It really ties it all together, because the Spirit is leading us, speaking to us, and helping us to embrace the things that are before us. It's very fitting to involve the Spirit in this painting, because it's so important to involve the Spirit in our decisions.