And this, too, shall pass away 4

And this, too, shall pass away 4 I love the still power of a painting, but I always saw one series of paintings, in particular, as owing a lot to a filmic vision, and I’ve really valued looking again at the series in light of moving image, digital reworking and a new audience. In 2007 I wrote a proposal for a series of paintings inspired by the stations of the cross. The series was commissioned by the David Roberts Art Foundation and completed in 2009. I intended to follow the conceptual themes of the stations rather than their literal content: the traditional object of the stations is to help the faithful make a spiritual pilgrimage of prayer to the chief scenes of Christ’s suffering an...View all