The first picture is the colouring page that I promised to share with you in my recent post about my visit to Hodnet Hall. I coloured it during July and August.
The second two photographs are colourings that I started a while ago and only recently completed.
Archive for the 'Art' Category
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Rooms of wonder
10 Comments CherryPie on Sep 14th 2025
This Chapel has as its focus a replica of an extraordinary piece of art – the Stalingrad Madonna.
The curved figure of the Virgin Mary enfolds her baby in her hood, her eyes closed. The words around her translate as ‘1942 Christmas in the cauldron…Light, Life, Love’.
It was drawn at a time of terrible suffering, but [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Jul 30th 2025
Filed under Art, Faith Foundations, Heritage
The Thornflower by Charlotte Mayer
Thornflower has its roots deep in the artist’s childhood in Prague (which she left in 1939) in happy memories of her grandmothers’ home “Das Rosel Haus (the house of rose)” and in the death of her grandmother in Treblinka in 1942.
It is a reflection not only on the Nazi Holocaust but on “man’s inhumanity” across [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jul 14th 2025
This 2009 interpretation of The Last Supper is by contemporary artist Lorna May Wadsworth. Featuring the Jamacan-born model Tafari Hinds as Christ.
It hit the headlines in the summer of 2020 when the artist heard it had been shot while in situ behind the altar of a church in Gloucestershire. The damage occurred on Christ’s right [...]
5 Comments CherryPie on Nov 28th 2024
Filed under Anecdotes, Art, St Albans 2024
Votes For Sale!
In 1851 St Albans achieved notoriety when its electorate of 500 men, were found guilty of selling their votes.
4 Comments CherryPie on Nov 27th 2024
Filed under Art, Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Rome 2024
The Nativity Scene by Arnolfo Di Cambio
For many centuries, the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major was called Saint Mary of the Manger or The Bethlehem of the West, owing to preservation in the Basilica, sine the 7th Century, of the precious relic of the Manger of the Child Jesus (today at the relquary crypt below the Main Altar. Originally, it [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Nov 2nd 2024
