A Wedding Anniversary Gift Text Painting

25/8/2019

'Romeo and Juliet' by Dire Straits Text Painting

Earlier this year I was contacted by Jeremy Hill to 'paint' a portrait of his wife using their special song. The song 'Romeo and Juliet' by Dire Straits reminds them of the time when they were first together in the early eighties. This dreamlike photograph was also taken around the same time and the painting marks their 38th wedding anniversary.

The video above shows some of the stages I went through making the portrait. The most challenging aspects where painting her hair. Creating blends using collage takes more time because you need to print, cut and glue a greater range of toned paper. The result however was well worth all the effort! Jeremy showed his wife Sue the video and he told me she cried - in a good way! For me this is one of the most satisfying parts of marking work like this!

I am looking forward to painting more like this one in the future!

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New Greeting Cards On Sale!

13/8/2019

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Narrowboat Greeting Cards by Jamie Poole

I have recently started to sell my design as greetings cards! Below you can now see the range of designs I have which you can buy at my shop on Etsy!
Visit My Shop to find out more!

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Let The Fields be Jubilant!!

25/7/2019

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A Cross For the School Chapel!

This month I had the great pleasure of designing an artwork for St. Winefride's Catholic Primary School in Neston, Cheshire. A new cross was needed for the School Chapel and I was asked to make a one using words from a specific Bible passage.

Psalm 96 was chosen with particular emphasis on the words -

'Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad;
let the sea resound, and all that is in it.
12 Let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them;
let all the trees of the forest sing for joy.'

This Psalm has the perfect words for a design as it clearly has lots of visual imagery to use and is also inspiring for the children at the school. With this in mind I decided to use lots of detailed flower motifs which would lead towards the fields in the background. I particularly enjoyed including a few insects as well as my favorite animals such as birds and a hare.

Some of the words also included the St. Winefride's mission statement,

'Learn, Laugh, Listen, Live, Love in the Presence of Jesus.'

Contact me to find out more about creating your own special cross or painting using your own words, poetry or Christian words of inspiration

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The Methodist Art Collection 'Space' Retreat

29/6/2019

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The Leicester Retreat Day at St Andrews Church

In June this year the Methodist art collection came to Leicester City. It was displayed in the Cathedral Church of Saint Martin, where Richard III is now buried. I was asked by the Methodist Church if I would lead an Art Retreat at St Andrew’s Church. There were eight artworks on display including those by Francis Hoyland, Phillip Le Bas, John Reilly, Jyoti Sahi and Francis Newton Souza.
The retreat gave participants the opportunity to view and discuss these paintings with me and then I gave a talk about my work before we all spent some time making a piece of artwork. (See the images below)

The first thing that struck me about the exhibition was its location. As a Christian I felt a stronger connection to the artwork in this Church. At the start of the day I encouraged everyone to consider this. We often see paintings in a more sterile space, with white walls, in an environment removed from the world. They are preserved and can feel artificial.

In a place of worship where people bring their prayers, emotions, troubles and joy an artwork takes on a deeper meaning. Paintings ask us many questions which can change according to our different perspective at different times. We react in new ways and see new things in pictures different times, as you do when reading a book for the second or third time. The paintings in St Andrew’s offer colour, texture, expression, emotion, and worship in a place that is all about the human condition, meeting with God and each other.

During my talk I introduced my ‘word art’ and brought along my painting called ‘Baptism’ which is my testimony following my Baptism in 2013. You can read more about this here. This shows a cross on a lake at my home town in Irthlingborough and is made using collage words from prayers. The delegates were then given a chance to contemplate the day and make a cross of their own. See the results below....

“The Christian is the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.”
Francis A. Schaeffer, Art and The Bible

This was some of feedback people gave of our day. Thanks everyone!

A good day. The “therapy” of creating, learning about and sharing other people’s art
Use of words to create art
That I can be creative given the right medium
To make time to be creative
That a simple process can be used to deeply focus
The importance of allowing time and space to reflect and how I can use art within that
Peace and patience
How I could use this day to move me on with worship leader training
I can create, I have got some good ideas
How creativity can be an act of worship
Relaxation! Experimentation!

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