29. Religious Paintings

As you may have figured out by now, I do like to paint just about everything, any subject matter, most of the time colourful and busy.

I am often asked about my religious scenes like the one here, Noahs Ark. Am I religious – well, I do hope there is an afterlife, I have so many people that I would so dearly like to see again.

Is there a heaven and will they be waiting for me ? Oh I truly hope so. Well if that is what I hope, what about God and Christianity and all the other religions?

My belief is that they all play a part and all have more similarities than differences.

To me it doesn’t matter whether your beliefs are of the Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhism, Catholic or any of the other Christian flavours.

We are all people of the world and ideally we should care for each other and help each other. I do think the 10 commandments make sense and try to live my life in ‘doing unto others’ and all that. Sometimes I fail but I do try to Pay It Forward, small kind gestures that make this world a better place.

So to sometimes paint a scene from the bible gives me a sense of peace. I will have to familiarise myself a bit more with the other religious books as I am sure they also have very rich and interesting material for new paintings.