Art for Lent

When you are next at St Mark’s you might want to spend a moment looking at the Lent images on display.

Around the edges of the board are illustrations by Simon Smith from ’40’. Each image is an imaginative representation of a day in Jesus’ time in the wilderness- some show him playful and curious, others show the hard reality of his experience. The second part of the illustrations, including Jesus’ encounter with the devil, will go up in a few weeks. If you look you might spot a red snake just sliding out of the corner of one image as a sign of what is to come.

You might also enjoy Kelly Latimore’s modern icon ‘Christ in the Wilderness’. Kelly’s approach to iconography is to encourage a ‘holy pondering’ that offers a new ways of seeing. She writes- ‘My hope is that these icons can do what all art can potentially do, which is, to create more dialogue… teach(ing) us about who God is, the world we live in, and who are our neighbours. This is the real work of being human and of art. Being more present.’