Transfiguration (Acrylic 30"x24")

"Transfiguration" (A painting someone told me was 'meh' so I tossed it, but still photographed it first. Since then, over 50 churches across the USA have used it in their Easter services. Sometimes it doesn't need to be a masterpiece for it to be meaningful to others.) For me, this painting is a different kind of sanctuary. Not the gentle refuge of a garden or pond, but the holy, trembling space where you realize you are standing in the presence of something far larger than your questions, your plans, or your understanding. It’s the place where you bow without being told to, where awe and fear and love all mingle together and you know you will not walk back down the mountain the same. “Transfiguration” is for the part of you that still longs to see glory break through the ordinary sky, even if it means being undone by it. My Inspiration: “Transfiguration” grew out of a quiet evening preparing for a small‑group Bible study. As I read about the moment Christ is revealed in glory on the mountain, I realized I couldn’t stay with words alone—I reached for my brush to paint the feeling of it. I imagined three close friends standing in a stark landscape, then suddenly surrounded by a light so intense that the hills, sky, and scenery fade into the background. The familiar figure they’ve walked with for years is lifted up and transformed before their eyes, light not just shining on Him, but pouring through Him. In this painting, the world around that light stays intentionally subdued, reduced almost to backdrop. The hills, the sky, the very ground lose their importance as the light widens and deepens, asking for only one response: to bow, to shield your eyes, and to let that unbearable, beautiful brilliance and the sense of awe that drives you to your knees, eyes turned away, heart wide open to something far bigger than you, that moment which would remake the way you see everything.