Leaves for Healing: From Lent to Eastertide

Leaves for Healing is a two-part exhibition organised by the artist’s and craftspersons’ group at St Martin-in-the-Fields. The theme is taken from Ezekiel 47:1-12 and the two halves of the exhibition reflect the transition from wilderness to fertile land. Several pieces have been shown in one form in the Lenten part of the exhibition and then adapted or further developed for the Eastertide part of the exhibition.

Jonathan Kearney's print Anticipation for the Lenten half of the exhibition has become New Week for the Eastertide section. 

Ali Lyon's Down in the River to Pray, hand-dyed fabric (linen, silk, cotton) in deepening shades of blue, with some salt embellishment. This follows the image of deepening water, the trees on the banks, the salty water, and shores of plain green. The shores were unadorned for Lent and now, for Eastertide, are blossoming with a variety of hand-stitched leaves (dyed and variously constructed). 

Three Hanging by Lois Bentley in which her photographic collages on sheet steel, originally hung with ‘Bruised’ taking centre stage, flanked by ‘Cubits’ and Granite’, have now been re-ordered for Eastertide. Now titled Re-United, for Eastertide the middle triangle is placed point upwards as Jesus work on the cross is finished and the Trinity are restored to their coherent whole. The colour yellow appears as the Spring of resurrection dawns. The new piece has been inspired by Jesus asking Simon for a third time - do you love me? 

New work for this part of the exhibition includes: Sarah Sikorski's Leaves for Healing wall hanging; Kathryn Hardy's screenprint entitled a river I could not cross; and New Life by Augusta Wicht, a mixed media piece which captures the nature of ecstasy in agony, through which redemption is achieved by surrendering the soul to the waves of world - a story every person hears in their own head at a point in life.

Leaves for Healing can be viewed in the foyer at St Martin-in-the-Fields until 9 June 2019.

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Lizz Wright - Every Grain Of Sand.