Through the Eyes of the Heart

Gemma Marie

Acrylic

This work was created during a live performance of The Crucifixion by John Stainer sung within a rural church local to where I live. It was my first experience of painting in direct response to music, worship, and unfolding sacred sound. The process was not intended to produce a finished image but to remain attentive, allowing a visual response to emerge through prayer, scripture and place. Within the service there were moments of stillness and movement, pauses that held weight and passages that shifted between sadness and upliftment. The painting became a way of staying with these transitions as they moved through setting &through feeling. The figure that emerged is not fixed but held within change, reflection and offering. This work is rooted in worship and attentiveness to God within lived church experience, where listening guided image making.