QuartzArt is part responding to the invisible urges of the moment, and part trudging through debris to carve out a new furrow. Each artist has their own methods, but for me I relish the importance of wildness in the way I work. I expect, and look out for, moments and find that this is rewarded […]
The nights are drawing in and the clocks have changed so the next few 2nd Sunday creative worship services are changing too. If you are up for it, the plan will be to meet in St Johns hall. Hopefully online too! The service would start at 1500 (GMT) and run till 1600. We plan to […]
I stumbled upon a conversation that interested me this morning. I do this fairly frequently, wander around the internet but taking time to intentionally recognise the beautiful and true things I find there. I have even described and presented some of them as cyber pilgrimages. The conversation I enjoyed this morning was about wilding though, […]
There are still brambles on the bushes, apples ripe for picking on the tree. The yard is secluded, and the birds find space to sing. This is an industrial yard, a coal yard, but times have changed and its use has changed with them. There is broadband so we can meet transatlantic friends and pray […]
Come and rest a while. There are still brambles and apples to harvest. Draw or write on the board. Or e-mail and I’ll print it out and stick it on for you. Zoom in for some i-spiration
“Don’t cling to me” The first response has been posted on the creative worship board. What does Jesus mean when he gives this instruction to Mary? Can you hear the words thousands of years away in time and still sense the tenderness from the context? When so much is out of kilter, what to we […]
This is the liturgy we will use for the 2nd Sunday in November Creative worship
For the last few weeks I have been working on an online celebration of Harvest. People would usually provide worship in the church building by filling it with a blaze of flowering beauty. This hasn’t stopped, but it is restricted this year. So I made a digital harvest. I have been sent poems, spinning, papermaking, […]
This will be the site of our October project. The theme is “Reconciliation” When a dream dies and is buried, how can you hope again? If you are abandoned, who can you trust? If you have let someone down, what conversations can reconcile you both with each other and the memory of the event? You […]
We have been gathering online throughout the covid crisis. This Sunday though we reckoned it was permissable, but also beneficial, to meet together outdoors. The service we will use will be a form of evening prayer, adjusted to be paper free and outdoors. We will also be launching a collaborative art project on the theme […]