The Rule & the Dove

The Rule & the Dove

A quiet Umbrian glow suffuses the new portraits of Saints Benedict and Scholastica by sacred artist Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs. She achieved it by painting mostly on sunny August afternoons, when the light in her studio reflected off the oak floors, casting a soft gold...
A Carthusian Bishop

A Carthusian Bishop

“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...