Earlier this week I made a return visit to St Mary with St Leonard Broomfield as part of preparing for the talk on 'Rosemary Rutherford's Religious Art' that I will giving there in November, together with Kathy Rouse.
Rosemary Rutherford was a deeply religious artist and her spirituality guided her artworks. While a degree of awareness exists for her work in stained-glass, her religious paintings remain little known and under-appreciated.
While at St Mary's, I was also able to see the gravestone for Broomfield's two other significant artists, sculptors Gwynneth Holt and Thomas Huxley-Jones, who were wife and husband. St Mary's is also fortunate to possess a lovely prayer stall created by Gwynneth Holt.
For more on the artists of Broomfield, all whom are commemorated there with blue plaques, see here, here, here and here.
As part of a series of poems on thin places and sacred spaces in Essex, I have written a poem on Broomfield and its artists which is due to be published shortly in International Times. The first poem in the sequence, 'Runwell', has been published by Amethyst Review and will also appear shortly in the new anthology Thin Places and Sacred Spaces by Amethyst Press. The remaining poems in the sequence - 'Bradwell' and 'Pleshey' - will be published by International Times and Amethyst Review respectively.
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