If you wish to browse Claudia's available works, you can now do so in the Available gallery. New items will be posted as they are created and completed.
Gallery of Available Work Now Open
April 8, 2006, 2:06 pmLimited Edition Giclee Prints
February 5, 2006, 7:51 pm
Many of Claudia's paintings are available in high quality Limited Edition Giclee Prints.
For more information about how to purchase paintings or prints or commission works, please go to the contact page and inquire by using the email form.
For more information about how to purchase paintings or prints or commission works, please go to the contact page and inquire by using the email form.
Gallery of Available artwork coming soon
February 5, 2006, 7:38 pm
A full gallery of all Claudia's artwork will be available here on the site soon, please check back soon.
Archive: Beauty For Ashes Exhibition
February 5, 2006, 7:31 pm
"BEAUTY FOR ASHES" 06/15/02 - 07/28/02
[ An Exhibition at the Bainbridge Arts and Crafts Gallery ]
The title for this show "Beauty for Ashes" came to me quite recently. A friend expressed the comfort she felt as she viewed my paintings. As I thought about her comments, I remembered, in stark contrast, my trip to New York City and Ground Zero just weeks after 9 11. It was indescribable. I can only say that for this country and perhaps the world a sense of collective grief was embedded in our souls. And it has gone on and on.
Why would these simple paintings of natural things be a comfort to anyone? For me my work is an act of worship to God who I love and serve, an offering of my time and purpose. I am persuaded God is able to take these simple things and use them for good.
For many, it has been a time of exceptional loss and grief, a time of personal tragedy that goes beyond anything previously experienced, yet possibly the beginning of a search for hope and healing, the comfort my friend experienced.
The title for this exhibition comes from a passage in the book of Isaiah 61:1-3:
The spirit of the Lord God is upon me: because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Beauty, and the invisible things from creation, contain a clear message of hope. We are able to see and appreciate and feel the power in it. We understand it on a level beyond culture or religion. It is God's own subliminal message. And it is one of hope and healing. It is not the end but the beginning, a road sign to the heart of God.
Claudia McKinstry
[ An Exhibition at the Bainbridge Arts and Crafts Gallery ]
The title for this show "Beauty for Ashes" came to me quite recently. A friend expressed the comfort she felt as she viewed my paintings. As I thought about her comments, I remembered, in stark contrast, my trip to New York City and Ground Zero just weeks after 9 11. It was indescribable. I can only say that for this country and perhaps the world a sense of collective grief was embedded in our souls. And it has gone on and on.
Why would these simple paintings of natural things be a comfort to anyone? For me my work is an act of worship to God who I love and serve, an offering of my time and purpose. I am persuaded God is able to take these simple things and use them for good.
For many, it has been a time of exceptional loss and grief, a time of personal tragedy that goes beyond anything previously experienced, yet possibly the beginning of a search for hope and healing, the comfort my friend experienced.
The title for this exhibition comes from a passage in the book of Isaiah 61:1-3:
The spirit of the Lord God is upon me: because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Beauty, and the invisible things from creation, contain a clear message of hope. We are able to see and appreciate and feel the power in it. We understand it on a level beyond culture or religion. It is God's own subliminal message. And it is one of hope and healing. It is not the end but the beginning, a road sign to the heart of God.
Claudia McKinstry