'TWELVE Advent Stations are composed of sonnets rendered calligraphically and read by actors, alongside paintings on assemblages formed by domestic utensils; they form a circular journey, the last word of each poem featuring in the first line of the next, echoing the annual repetition in the church calendar, of which Advent is the beginning; and they cover conception, John the Baptist, annunciation, Bethlehem, birth, shepherds, Magi, massacre, flight, return, Simeon and Anna, and Trinity.
These Stations — created by the artist Mark Cazalet, the calligrapher Pansy Campbell, and the poet Richard Leaf, all members of the congregation of St Martin’s, Kensal Rise, where the Stations were first shown — had their own conceptions in Leaf’s sonnets, which then found complementary expression in Cazalet’s art, Campbell’s calligraphy, and the actor’s readings.
Other of my pieces for Church Times can be found here. My writing for ArtWay can be found here. My pieces for Artlyst are here, those for Seen & Unseen are here, and those for Art+Christianity are here.
These Stations — created by the artist Mark Cazalet, the calligrapher Pansy Campbell, and the poet Richard Leaf, all members of the congregation of St Martin’s, Kensal Rise, where the Stations were first shown — had their own conceptions in Leaf’s sonnets, which then found complementary expression in Cazalet’s art, Campbell’s calligraphy, and the actor’s readings.
Other of my pieces for Church Times can be found here. My writing for ArtWay can be found here. My pieces for Artlyst are here, those for Seen & Unseen are here, and those for Art+Christianity are here.
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St Martin's Voices - O Morning Star.
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