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Saturday, 7 August 2021

Sabbatical Art Pilgrimage: Church of the Month report

 My latest Church of the Month report for ArtWay focuses on All Saints Tudeley:

"Hidden away at the end of a lane leading from Five Oaks Green Road, set among fields and Kentish Oast houses in the Tunbridge Wells borough of Kent, England), is a pretty, compact country church which dates to the beginning of the seventh century, although most of what can be seen today is from the 18th century ...

As I walk into Tudeley Parish Church I am immediately immersed in intense colours – ‘rich and deep marine blue, with blends of burgundy and bottle green’ – because, as James Crockford has described, every window in the church ‘from great big panes of light to tiny peep holes’ was designed by the Russian-Jewish artist Marc Chagall. Chagall’s designs swirl with emotive colour and evocative movement. This is stained-glass that shines and glows ‘with a glory that hits you’ through ‘the energy of light and life that bursts or glows through.’"

My Church of the Month reports include: Aylesford PrioryCanterbury CathedralChapel of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, HemChelmsford CathedralChurches in Little WalsinghamCoventry CathedralÉglise de Saint-Paul à Grange-CanalEton College ChapelLumenMetz CathedralNotre Dame du LémanNotre-Dame de Toute Grâce, Plateau d’Assy,RomontSint Martinuskerk LatemSt Aidan of LindisfarneSt Alban RomfordSt. Andrew Bobola Polish RC ChurchSt. Margaret’s Church, Ditchling, and Ditchling Museum of Art + CraftSt Mary the Virgin, DowneSt Michael and All Angels Berwick and St Paul Goodmayes, as well as earlier reports of visits to sites associated with Marian Bohusz-SzyszkoMarc ChagallJean CocteauAntoni Gaudi and Henri Matisse.

My visual meditations include work by María Inés Aguirre, Giampaolo Babetto, Marian Bohusz-Szyszko, Alexander de Cadenet, Christopher Clack, Marlene Dumas, Terry Ffyffe, Jake FloodAntoni Gaudi, Nicola Green, Maciej Hoffman, Lakwena Maciver, S. Billie Mandle, Giacomo Manzù, Michael Pendry, Maurice Novarina, Regan O'Callaghan, Ana Maria Pacheco, John Piper, Nicola Ravenscroft, Albert Servaes, Henry Shelton, Anna Sikorska and Edmund de Waal.

Interviews for ArtWay include: Sophie Hacker and Peter Koenig. I also interviewed ArtWay founder Marleen Hengelaar Rookmaaker for Artlyst.

I have reviewed: Art and the Church: A Fractious Embrace, Kempe: The Life, Art and Legacy of Charles Eamer Kempe, and Jazz, Blues, and Spirituals.

Other of my writings for ArtWay can be found here. My pieces for Church Times can be found here. Those for Artlyst are here and those for Art+Christianity are here.

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Beth Rowley - Beautiful Tomorrow.

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