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...

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...

A Crown of Gold for the House of Gold

by Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs | May 11, 2019 | Blog

Crown of the Andes, now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York In the last decade of the 1590s, in gratitude to the Immaculate Conception for having spared them from an outbreak of smallpox, the people of Popayán in the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Granada offered her...

Pietà with Saints John and Mary Magdalen

by Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs | Apr 16, 2019 | Blog

Christus factus est pro nobis obediens usque ad mortemChrist became obedient for us unto death—From the Gradual for Maundy Thursday, based on Philippians 2:8 On Monday of Passion Week Gwyneth began working on a commission for a Pietà with Saints John and Mary...