Iddo and Darcy visit The Parliament

"'If you can?'" said Jesus. "Everything is possible for him who believes."
Mark 9:23

Villandry, France (No 1)

Psalm 84: 1

How lovely is your dwelling place, 
LORD Almighty!
My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; 
my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. 

Venezia, Rio Santa Maria Formosa

"My grace is sufficient for you,
for My strength is made perfect in weakness."
2 Corinthians 12:9

Flying Machine

Psalm 55:6
""And I said, "Oh, that I had
wings like a dove!
For then I would fly away and be at rest."

Positano One (watercolour)

"A man's wisdom makes his face shine,
And the sternness of his face is changed."
Ecclesiastes 8:1b

Villandry, France....No.2

"In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so,
I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you."
John 14:2

The Wedding

Proverbs 5:18
"Let your fountain be blessed,
And rejoice with the wife of your youth."

The Blue Chair

Isaiah 32:18
And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

Imogen

Psalm 77:1-6
"I cried out to God with my voice-
To God with my voice;
And He gave ear to me.
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord;
My hand was stretched out in the night without ceasing;
My soul refused to be comforted.
I remembered God, and was troubled;
I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed.        Selah

You hold my eyelids open;
I am so troubled I cannot speak.
I have considered the days of old,
The years of ancient times.
I call to remembrance my song in the night;
I meditate within my heart,
And my spirit makes diligent search."

Young Soldier

The young soldier fights to defend his country...
fights to uphold democracy, freedom.....
yet society can sometimes rob itself from it's own freedoms.

Josephine Cafagna writes in The Age newspaper, March 29, 2015
"It mightn't be fashionable but I love looking stylish."
She concludes in her article...
"I want to look good because it makes me feel good.
If that makes me less of an intellect,
if that makes people think less of me,
if that means I'm frivolous,
then so be it."

Psalm 80:6

"Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours:

and our enemies laugh among themselves."

The Pink Flowers

"Great men are not always wise,
Nor do the aged always understand justice."
Job 32:9

Flowers and Books

"The grass withers and the flowers fall 
but the Word our God endures forever."
Isaiah 40:8

Vase On Black Cloth

acrylic 40 x50 cm

"For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from Heaven, and
returneth not thither, but watereth the earth,
and maketh it bring forth and bud,
that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater;
So shall My word be that goeth forth out of My mouth;
it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please,
and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it."
Isaiah 55: 10-11

Red Apples

oil on canvas...51cm x 61cm

"The Lord is my shepherd,
I shall not want."
Psalm 23:1

Afternoon in Amalfi

I went to see the film "Woman in Gold"
starring Helen Mirren
an excellent film....re the story behind of one of  Gustave Klimt's portrait's
stolen from a Jewish family.
Set mostly in Vienna,  a beautiful city....
and to remember the tragic persecution of the Jewish people.

This my painting of lovely Amalfi...Italy. The town square,
magnificent church, and lovely hills
in the background.

"And I will punish the world for their evil,
and the wicked for their iniquity;
and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease,
and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible."
Isaiah 13:11