Barns

A ceramic wall sculpture/painting

This piece was made in memory of my father who passed away in 2012 he was a pastor of a church in Ripley, Derbyshire for the last 40 years of his life. He loved Derbyshire and the landscape coming originally from Nottingham and in a rock and roll band in the early 1960’s shortly before he gave it all up as he had found God (or God found him) .

The image came from a photograph I had taken while on a walk in Derbyshire just after his death. My dad loved farms and barns in particular I never knew why until I thought about it but sewing, reaping, gathering, planting, all things to do with farms and farmers are written about as images / parables in the bible. He saw his church buildings as barns to gather the harvest of people so this is what I decided to depict.

The piece has scriptures throughout related to barns in the bible, not visible straight away but after looking closely can be read.