Mourning Dove….Watercolor…Carolyn Pereira
Fall Tree in Green Pasture on a Windy Day…. Acrylic on Cardboard….Paxton Murphy
Angel of Creation….Color pencils….Vinita Wright
If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happened better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that's often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb. Mary Oliver
“The Great Migration” Mural…Digital photograph…. Bob Bator
“Daddy!”….Vicky’s Wedding….Photo….Tom Irving
Swings….Digital photograph...Swahdreeznya Rosier
Grandma….Digital photograph….Jim Wright
Points to Paradise….Acrylic….Swahdreeznya Rosier
“Look!”….Photograph, Chicago Blues Festival…. Tom Irving
Annie….Photograph….Anne Harlan
The Joy of Making….Origami….Willa Pereira
Nature and Art Are a Joyful Combination….Digital Photograph….Val Tonsgard
Kids in Pool, Lima, Peru….Digital photograph.…. Bob Bator
“Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.”
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Brenda….Photograph….Jim Wright
Summer Bliss….Markers….Vinita Wright
Worm Eating Warblers at Home….Watercolor….Carolyn Pereira
My Mother’s 86th Birthday, in Rapturous Joy….Photograph….Melissa McNeill
Nature and Art Are a Joyful Combination….Digital photograph….Val Tonsgard
My Mother, Stripped of All Memory, 100% Joy,,,,Photograph,,,,Melissa McNeill
Fountain of the Muses by Carl Milles (1875-1955)….Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina….Digital Photograph….Christian Clough
Shaker Sunrise….Shaker Village at Sabbathday Lake, Maine Photograph....Christian Clough
Silly Moon Song: A Board Book….Anne Harlan
The SPR Arts Committee normally has an art exhibit in the church’s chapel, which changes every two months. During COVID-19 we have decided to bring you art online. Originally this group show, “JOY!" was to have been presented in the chapel. This exhibit will stay on the SPR website through July 31, 2020 and shows will return to the chapel after the church reopens. For information contact Jim Wright at jimphotoguy1@gmail.com.