Art by Christine Council
"Lord...
let me be a paintbrush, dipped in Love...
painting your heart's pictures,
giving others eyes to see."
Take a look around and
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Christine is available to come to conferences to speak, teach, minister, create individual prophetic portraits, or paint live during worship.
please contact us if you have any questions!
Christine is available to come to conferences to speak, teach, minister, create individual prophetic portraits, or paint live during worship.
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For the whole meaning of the strange thing called Art is merely this, that by copying a thing, by making it over again, and above all by making it over again with a slight difference, we can see something of the primary wonder of it, a spasm, as it were, of the enduring astonishment of God. Anyone, for instance, who has ever looked with certain feelings at a child's dolls'-house, knows the thing of which I speak. The very fact that the dolls'-house is small, makes us realise with surprise that houses can be so large. The very fact that it is not real makes us remember, with a sort of shock, that houses are real. We see the thing at second hand; and then only we realize it at first hand. In this the dolls'-house is the symbol and seed of the whole of art. Art, as I have said, has exactly the opposite aim to the aim of science. Science connects a thing with everything, that it may be natural and expected. Art isolates a thing from everything, that it may be unexpected, that it may be supernatural. 
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"Visuals are powerful. They say things that words cannot say. As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. Pictures reach places that words may fail to reach, penetrating the closed vault of our hearts and allowing us to see things that words only obscure."
IVP commentary on Luke 11
