Genesis 28 v10-13
‘Jacob...taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. There above it stood the Lord, and he said: ‘I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying.’
This reading and a sermon given by the Rev. Leonard Ruddock, inspired me to paint this artwork.
The scale symbolises the role of God in Jacob’s story and ours. The paint moves around the board, the marks emphasising the speed of change with the spindly ladder the only solid certainty, our link to heaven.
Genesis 28 v10-13
‘Jacob...taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. There above it stood the Lord, and he said: ‘I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying.’
This reading and a sermon given by the Rev. Leonard Ruddock, inspired me to paint this artwork.
The scale symbolises the role of God in Jacob’s story and ours. The paint moves around the board, the marks emphasising the speed of change with the spindly ladder the only solid certainty, our link to heaven.
Currently with Hamley and Hamley Gallery
