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Sunday, 25 September 2022

Artlyst - Winslow Homer: Beyond The Sea – National Gallery

My latest review for Artlyst is of Winslow Homer: Force of Nature at National Gallery:

‘Homer’s concern for the plight of freed slaves began during his childhood, when discussions of slavery and the abolitionist movement were very much a part of his daily life. At one point his parents attended different churches: his mother Henrietta attending a church that was abolitionist, and his father Charles attending another that was strongly against. Later, they moved to Cambridge with abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who was also a strong supporter of women’s rights.

While his interest in the pressing issues of his time, such as conflict and race, feature strongly in his work it is the relationship between humankind and the environment expressed in restless seascapes that becomes his principal focus, reflecting both his travels around the globe and his home on the coast of Maine.

The sea takes over, so that by Winter Coast (1890), the abstract force of the raging sea overwhelms both land and canvas swamping the image and imperilling the vulnerable hunter facing wild nature. In today’s context, this is a disturbing image that connects with concerns about rising sea levels. The power of the ocean is literally overwhelming.'

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The Innocence Mission - Lakes Of Canada.
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Thursday, 26 April 2018

commission4mission's creative retreat 4





The worship at commission4mission's creative retreat included poetry readings using poems by Pierre Jean Jouve, Edwin Morgan and John O'Donohue. Jean Lamb and I also shared poems we wrote during the retreat. I also brought poetry by John F. Deane, David Gascoyne, Jouve and Gabriela Mistral to read while on the retreat.

Edwin Morgan is an interesting poet, who 'had his own disagreements with organised Christianity, both in its Protestant and Catholic forms' but who, nevertheless found that 'the powerful persona of the Jesus of the gospel narratives continued to niggle him, and to fascinate by his difference.' This led him, in the year 2000, to write a trilogy of plays on the life of Jesus, entitled AD. Morgan was a concrete poet, like Ian Hamilton Findlay and Dom Sylvester Houédard (aka dsh).

I finished reading Deane's Give Dust A Tongue, in which he shares aspects of his life and work which influenced his faith and his poetry using a combination of memoirs and poems. The culminates with meditations on Christ's question to his disciples, 'Who do you say that I am?', which Deane explores through an edition of Poetry Ireland Review and a sonnet sequence entitled 'According to Lydia'.

Our retreat ended with a special Communion Service at St Peter's Chapel led by Revd Brigid Maine which had Mary Fleeson's 'Remember Me' as it's centrepiece.

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Live - Heaven.
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