Paintings

In Sting’s 2006 album: The Journey and the Labyrinth, he combines his raw, piercing and sensitive voice, with the melodies and lyrics of John Dowling. Haunted by the echoes of the songs, this series reflects the deep and brooding often lugubrious sounds of our thoughts inter-mixed with light and lyrical pirouettes. The title of the series, Tenebrae, comes from the latin meaning shadows or darkness. During Holy Week the office of Tenebrae is sung cultivating the darkness (tenebrae colit), grief, and sorrow of Christ’s passion.  These works, with their passages, obstacles, and dichotomy of dark and light, speak to me of that journey and pilgrimage; the passage through life is through the shadows … brooding and fret with dragons t’ward the edges … yet is measured by light.