Information Dali  was inspired to paint The Ascension of Christ by a “cosmic dream’ that he had in 1950, some eight years before the painting was completed.  The vivid colours of his dream led to the painting of the nucleus of an atom as both the background to the painting and as a symbol of …

Information Currently a California resident, Dr He Qi Studied at Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing Art Institute in China and Hamburg Art Institute in Germany.  He has been an Artist-in-Residence at Fuller Theological Seminary (CA) and is Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Art Institute of RUC (Renmin University of China,Beijing)  He was the first among Mainland Chinese …

Information Harmonia Rosales’ does not wish to upset viewers but to balance Christian art with images of black people.  She was born in 1984 of Afro-Cuban American heritage, in Chicago.  As a child she was interested in classic art by the Old Masters.  Rosales defines herself as a womanist – a movement of black people …

Happy Easter! Dear Friends, I hope your Easter Celebrations were good and that, in these joyful 50 days of Easter you continue to reflect on the power of God seen in weakness, of healing coming from defeat and glory found in the shock of the empty tomb.   We’ve reached the end of St Mark’s Gospel …

St Mark 16: 14 – 20 Later Jesus appeared to the eleven themselves as they were sitting at the table; and he upbraided them for their lack of faith and stubbornness, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.  And he said to them, ‘Go into all the world and …

St Mark 16: 9 – 12 Now after he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.  She went out and told those who had been with him, while they were mourning and weeping. But when they heard that he …