by Lesley Sutton | Jun 16, 2016 | Blog, Uncategorised
Over the past month we have been through one of the most significant times in our nation’s history. Much fear and uncertainty, anger and disillusion has awoken deep emotions within towns and cities up and down the country giving rise to racial abuse, violence and...
by webmaster | Jun 30, 2015 | Blog
“Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” Every day Christians across the world pray this prayer, but what do we really mean within the context of the everyday? How do we see and bring about the kingdom of God in our cities and towns, in...
by Lesley Sutton | Mar 16, 2015 | Blog
This years Lenten installation at Manchester Cathedral shows a life size realist painting of the Good Thief who according to the Passion story was crucified to the right of Christ at Golgotha. It is unusual to depict the crucifixion story without making Christ the...
by Lesley Sutton | Sep 18, 2014 | Blog
I have always loved beautiful things. I love to surround myself with flowers on the kitchen table, a garden full of colours and textures, paintings and sculptures on my walls and window sills, photographs of special places we’ve visited and shared beautiful moments in...
by Lesley Sutton | Sep 16, 2014 | Blog
In this stunning piece of sculpture by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park we are invited to rediscover the art of wonder. To pause, be still, observe and allow life and nature to be present to our deepest selves, and to be open to the...
by Lesley Sutton | Sep 16, 2014 | Blog
‘When we awaken to beauty, we become aware of new ways of being in the world.’ By beauty I do not mean the pretty, the pleasing, the easy to understand, the mindless and naive, but beauty, I believe is the nature of God, that can be found, discovered, and even...