My Art is currently available for viewing in my studio at 2320 N. Davidson Street, Inside The Peddler's Post, 2320 N. Davidson Street, Charlotte North Carolina Across from Amalie's French Bakery ~ "Exploring Paths of Grace" Tina Steele Penn ~ Grace! Heaven - here and now- The beauty of - life - art - music - friendship - shower us now. It is grace that allows us to see Beyond this world to the next. What is in an eye to receive beauty? What is in an ear to hear it? Blood, membranes, a lense, a drum? Beauty has a power in and of itself, apart from us. Imbued from the source, not the receiver. To hunger - and thereby appreciate a power so far beyond ourselves That we can only capture glimmers of it Shimmering through a veil.
"Over the Rainbow" 36 x 24 Oil on Stretch Canvas 2010 - What we can't see
We become the vessel of Grace to those around us. We become light and life and perhaps even display A small modicum of Glory To those who walk near us. Glory. Grace shows us Glory. Glory we don't deserve to see. Will never deserve.
"Hope Whispers" 32 x 42" Oil on Board - The voice that speaks to us Love. But Glory so bright that our hearts are sometimes moved Beyond sinew and bone, cell and neuron, And drawn though the veil to taste a world Beyond the material - the Ethereal -
"Beauty from Ashes" Oil on Board 2009 - The now of my life - from before.
Where abstraction flees before the solid realization Of the Creator of Light Who is Love. Love we don't deserve - but ah- that's the point of love. Love has no requirement. No demands. It cannot be bought. It is showered. We are immersed.
"More Precious Than Gold" Oil on Board - What suffering teaches us.
Grace shows us the power and glory of a Love so great That it reaches and touches us in the core of our being. Shredding our humaness, and laying bare our limitations, While wrapping us in warm and gentle caresses - "Singing over us in Love".
"Sacred Ground" 18 x 24 on Stretch Canvas 2010 - Where God's tears fall. . All we are capable of doing - In return - Is love. Tina Steele Penn |
