A second print of a painting of Jesus by the street artist DANK has been gifted to St Andrew's Wickford.
Dan Kitchener (DANK - https://www.dankitchener.com/) hails from Wickford and specialises in worldwide street art, epic scale murals, interior and exterior works of art (https://www.dankitchener.com/street-art-murals). He has several large murals in Essex including at Rochford and Southend. His murals also include images of Christ in Belfast, Vassa (Finland) and elsewhere.
He says of ‘Garden of Light’, the new image: “When I paint I need to respond naturally to my subject matter, without overthinking, over planning or procrastination - often people comment how ‘quickly’ I paint murals and canvas works - for me it’s almost like a pent up explosion of creativity that I feel welling up like a bubbling spring inside me - I went to my studio last night and put on loud, powerful music, grabbed my cans and canvas and then released all the energy in me to create this canvas - I don’t stop when I paint like this - I paint until I feel it’s finished - for me this artwork achieved my intentions - light filled, nature, flowers and plants. Trees, branches with light flickering through - a sense of peace, calm, beauty and love - I could feel that warm sunlight on me, smell those flowers as I painted (could have been the MTN94 though) and heard his footsteps on the trail ahead.”
These prints will be on display when their hanging space is not required for our art exhibitions.
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