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Just a snapshot of one of the small paintings I did of Bendigo Presbyterian Church (St John's) for my major subject at university.

The assignment was to select a place and produce a series of works based around said place (though, with a whole lot of artistic jargon thrown in to confuse anyone reading the brief).

So, I picked my church, as I felt it was a place that was probably most significant to me right now, as well as being a place that is very beautiful and a topic that I can rattle on about indefinitely as far as "the deeper meaning of the work" is concerned.

So...this is the church spire. The Church was built in 1858, in the gothic revival style (so even though it is small, it has a rather elaborate high ceiling with archways and couple of columns that does your head in when you try and draw it) by architect W. C. Vahland (one of the German architects responsible for a number of beautiful buildings built during the gold rush in Bendigo). But from what some people have told me, the spire wasn't added until sometime later.

The reason for the red cracks running through the image is to try and portray the church as being more than just a building, I mean sure, we meet in the building, but the church is wider community of believers and the veins (hence the red) of what ties us together run through our lives even once the last service on a Sunday is finished.

Acrylic paint, obscene amounts of crackle medium (more than one type, too, and built up and sanded back heavily) and white ink on a sanded and primed piece of wood from the side of the road.

If you actually managed to read all that, you deserve a gold star

Description
Just a snapshot of one of the small paintings I did of Bendigo Presbyterian Church (St John's) for my major subject at university.

The assignment was to select a place and produce a series of works based around said place (though, with a whole lot of artistic jargon thrown in to confuse anyone reading the brief).

So, I picked my church, as I felt it was a place that was probably most significant to me right now, as well as being a place that is very beautiful and a topic that I can rattle on about indefinitely as far as "the deeper meaning of the work" is concerned.

So...this is the church spire. The Church was built in 1858, in the gothic revival style (so even though it is small, it has a rather elaborate high ceiling with archways and couple of columns that does your head in when you try and draw it) by architect W. C. Vahland (one of the German architects responsible for a number of beautiful buildings built during the gold rush in Bendigo). But from what some people have told me, the spire wasn't added until sometime later.

The reason for the red cracks running through the image is to try and portray the church as being more than just a building, I mean sure, we meet in the building, but the church is wider community of believers and the veins (hence the red) of what ties us together run through our lives even once the last service on a Sunday is finished.

Acrylic paint, obscene amounts of crackle medium (more than one type, too, and built up and sanded back heavily) and white ink on a sanded and primed piece of wood from the side of the road.

If you actually managed to read all that, you deserve a gold star