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Since 2018, I have created the Islander Awakening Retreat banners for the Texas A&M Corpus Christi Newman Center. It became a yearly tradition to create these banners. They are used during a weekend retreat as a backdrop to help inspire the college students who attend the retreat. I create them using a twin sheet with …
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The response to the Come and See Art Exhibit last Dec. 8, 2024 has truly been incredibly humbling. Mother Mary planted seeds that day and true to her promise she “took care of the rest” because the exhibit will be shown at several venues. New paintings will be added at each showing. There are more …
Prompted by Our Most Holy Mother of God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, I will have a solo show on Immaculate Conception Sunday, December 8, 2024. The show will feature new paintings of Jesus imagined childhood from Mother Mary as a Temple Virgin to the Finding of the Child Jesus in the Temple (Luke 2:51). It’s …
A couple of years ago, I asked a good friend of mine (and a SOLT religious sister), Sr. Mary Mediatrix of All Graces, when her birthday was. It’s June 28th she told me. An easy date to remember since it’s a day after my brother’s birthday. I was not familiar with the Marian title that …
Last Thursday, May 9, 2024, I donated a Marian painting to a SOLT fundraiser at Our Lady of Corpus Christi. It was placed on live auction. The painting is the 2nd of a Marian series that I am creating. With the guidance of the Holy Spirit, this series is about all the things that our …
There were 300 artists and 650 entries submitted and my painting “Word of God” was blessed to be selected as one of the 109 finalists (70 artists) to be juried for inclusion in There were 300 artists and 650 entries submitted and my painting “The Word of God” was blessed to be selected as one …
This little 11″x14″ Oil on Canvas painting was created to honor the memory of a good friend, Manuel Pena, whom God called home last March 5, 2024. Manuel radiated Christ to everyone wherever he went and this painting reflects his deep devotion to the Our Lady of Perpetual Help. St. Joseph was also ever present …
Finally completed St Joseph, The Worker! It is destined for St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Elwood, Indiana. It is Oil on Linen, 24″x30″. The conceptual stage began in 2021 and I did an 11″x14″color study which was very helpful. I had to set it aside when I had other commissions with tighter deadlines and then …
Our Lady of Fatima (Revelation 12:1)originally posted on Saturday, February 11, 2023 I was going to paint Our Lady of Lourdes but I was prompted by the Holy Spirit to paint for the first time Our Lady of Fatima. Later, I would discover why. The background is the sculpture relief of the Coronation of Our …
This 18″x24″, oil on canvas, painting of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity with the Our Lady of Corpus Christi Church in the background was especially created for the SOLT General Priest Servant, Fr Peter Marsalek as a birthday surprise. Thanks be to God – I finished it just in time to present it …