ARTIST STATEMENT

I am thankful for the privilege to make work with the Creative Holy Spirit.

Within the sacred space of Lake Superior’s windward shoreline my aesthetic was founded: I grew up beside Superior, this powerful inland sea that smooths granite stones within skies ablaze.

Abstraction became my style: I love to pare images to their essence and I love to peel words to their trueness in meaning, then to join them together as they become visual meditations of a inner transformation process.

Creating is worship: My work documents my experience in love with God—his creation, Word, Holy Spirit—in my life as I know his unfailing faithful love.

Media Metaphors: I use responsive clay, a symbol of our humanity; the 19 hour firing to 1800 F, a sign of refinement; I apply gold leaf, a symbol of divinity; and, the colours in paint and digital images present the spiritual energy, glory of heaven.

These icons in sculpture, photographs and paintings are the refinement of over three decades of my creative process, and recently I have begun to see the lovely integration of art, theology with etymology to make contemporary places of contemplation—icons!

With your participation, partaking & giving, the icons become complete.

Elizabeth Brooks, Visual Artist and Educator