Towards Eternity With God. 1995.
In the early 1970’s I had an idea of how to divide up a rectangle by arranging not more than three colours into two areas of each colour, so that no two identical colours touch each other. In the 1990’s I realised that this idea could be transformed to show how I and other Christians walk with God through life towards eternity, made possible only by Jesus’ death and resurrection, surrendering to Him and being filled with the Holy Spirit.
A landscape is used as a metaphor for this walk. In part the curve represents the brow of a hill, the blue the sky and the red the earth. The white represents eternity, placed at the focal point of the picture. Depth is achieved in a number of ways. Black lines taper in, their thickness decreasing geometrically towards the centre. In the outer large rectangle there are four areas of colour, the inner smaller rectangle has two and there is only one small rectangle of white. There are also three rectangles decreasing in size to the centre. That progression and those tapering black lines lead the eye around the composition quite naturally to the white central rectangle. This is an expression of this walk and focus upon eternity. This walk is an uplifting positive experience which is the other meaning of the curve.
The Divine Proportion of a third to two-thirds division of a line together with the geometric system of half to half division of a line and a part invisible cross underpins the picture and imparts structure and rhythm. The white rectangle is in what I call the super positive quadrant of the composition at the centre of this cross. This centre has three centres to show the triune nature of God. Again what I call the super positive centre represents the Father at the centre of the white rectangle, what I call the golden centre represents the Holy Spirit at the point at the top right where the black curve leaves the white rectangle and the geometric centre represents Jesus the Son at the point at the bottom left where the black curve enters the white rectangle.
An aspect of a Christian’s walk here on the Earth is tension, part of us longs to be in Heaven with God and part wants to fulfil plans and purposes here on Earth. This tension is illustrated by the smooth red and yellow areas contrasting with the cross hatched blue areas, and between the flat areas of colour and the 3D aspect of the black tapering lines.
I believe that God living in a person makes that person alive and warm, shown by the use of warm primary colours, blue, red and yellow. These three primary colours also represent the triune nature of God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) and the triune nature of a person (spirit, soul and body). Three-ness is also echoed in there being three rectangles. The areas of colour total six, a number for a person, white makes this seven the number representing God and with black to eight, the number denoting change.
Please see my back story regarding my picture Towards Eternity Without God.