Painting Faith

by Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs | Aug 11, 2020 | Blog

“Ye men of Galilee, why stand you looking up to heaven? This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come, as you have seen him going into heaven.”Acts 1:11 The Evidence of Things Unseen According to an ancient tradition, for forty days–from the...

Paintings for Holy Week

by Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs | Apr 6, 2020 | Blog

Is your favorite altarpiece locked away in a church or museum during the corona virus? Until you can see it again in person, here are a few recommendations for images of paintings to meditate on during Holy Week: Valentin de Boulogne, The Last Supper, ca. 1625-26....

Madonna of the Crown of Roses

by Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs | Mar 23, 2020 | Blog

Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs, Madonna, oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches, 2020 Deposuit potentes de sede, et exaltavit humiles. He has put down the mighty from their seat, and exalted the lowly. —Luke 1:52 Tradition attributes several paintings and sculptures of Our Lady...

Homage to an Empress

by Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs | Mar 21, 2020 | Blog

Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs, Our Lady of Guadalupe, oil on linen, 2020 Loss & Recovery In 1326 the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to a cowherd named Gil Cordero on the bank of the Guadalupe River in Extremadura, Spain, and revealed the existence of a statue that had...

A Carthusian Bishop

by Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs | Jan 30, 2020 | Blog

“If you blur your eyes or view the painting from afar, the emblems disappear; what remains is the figure of a man wearing white robes against a blue-grey background, standing in warm light.” This is how sacred artist Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs sums up her new painting of...