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Quality is the first norm for art, but its final norm is love and truth, the enriching of human life, the deepening of our vision.

Visual meditations

Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi: The Magi

The artists masterfully employ the tondo shape to propel the viewer’s eye around the circumference of their composition, thus following the journey of the magi.

read more Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi: The Adoration of the Magi, detail

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Steve Whittle

Interview with Steve Whittle

by Jonathan Evens
 
From colour field and op art to collaged landscapes and flower studies, Whittle's career has had many fascinating twists and turns.

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News

NEWS WINTER 2025

Current exhibitions, 

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read more Tim Joyner: Incarnation, 2021

Art and Music

Peter S. Smith and Duke Special

I am black and white
I am color
I am risk
I am mother
I am holy
I’m disaster

read morePeter S. Smith: Some One Else detail

Art and Poetry

Ernst Barlach: The Reunion of Christ and Thomas, detail

Denise Levertov & Ernst Barlach

People so tuned
can't open to symbol's power
unless convinced of its ground,
its roots in bone and blood.
We must feel the pulse in the wound to believe that 'with God all things are possible.'

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Christian calendar

The Speck and the Log

For Year C,

8th Sunday after Epiphany

Jesus urges us to remove the log that blocks our view of our own failings. Be merciful, he says.

read more Dutch 17th-century tile: The Speck and the Log