We exist to make available meaningful, high-quality artwork in a culture where the cheap, the ephemeral, and the expedient too often dominate.  Most of the quotations used in our artwork are from classic works, and many are from the Bible, which we view as the ultimate source of truth.  

Our name was inspired both by the workshops of medieval manuscript illuminators, and by Lady Julian of Norwich, a fourteenth-century recluse who was the recipient of sixteen "shewings," or visions, which vividly described God's divine love. In one of these visions, she relates that

"...and in this he shewed a little thing, the quantitie of an haselnott, lying in the palme of my hand, ...and it was as rounde as a ball. I looked thereon with the eye of my understanding, and thought: What may this be? And it was answered generaelly thus: It is all that is made. I marvayled how it might laste, for me thought it might sodenly have fallen to nawght for littlenes. And I was answered in my understanding: It lasteth and ever shall, for God loveth it; and so hath all thing being by the love of God."

We concur with Lady Julian that all Creation pales in comparison with the uncreated God, and seek in our work to bring Him glory, as well as to bring to you "nothing...that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful" (William Morris).

About the artist

The natural world has always been a subject ripe for interpretation to me.  A native Oregonian, I enjoy long hikes in the woods and learning names of trees and flowers, many of which find their way into my art.

This business was brought into being by the steady drip of friends, relatives, and ultimately a husband urging me to share my artwork with the world - rather like the formation of a stalagmite. My work is influenced by the rich history of art, from illuminated manuscripts to Uccello, Fra Angelico, Schongauer, Matisse, Klee, Klimt, and others. It is one of the ways God has given me to express what He has put in me.

I hope that you will discover in my work both beauty and meaning.  Your comments are appreciated: click on Contact Us to do so.

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