Climate and art
Green Christian Chair and Arts Convenor, George Dow, reflects on the reasons for an exhibition of ten of his paintings on the theme of Climate and Other Things at his Penzance church during the Season of Creation.
George writes, “The initial suggestion for an exhibition of climate paintings came from Sian Yates, a fellow Green Christian member and Third Order Franciscan, who was then our priest at St Mary’s in Penzance.
“I feel strongly that expressing a deep concern for the planet is often best achieved through visual art rather than
the sometimes confusing world of words, graphs and statistics. It was intended that these paintings would prompt a reflective response in viewers which touches their hearts. The work was complemented by two pieces of text which are explained in the film.
Sian now works for HeartEdge, a project of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and she hoped that this short film could be used by HeartEdge, St Mary’s Church and Green Christian.”
An image of one of the paintings – When dying trees reach out to touch each other, they find a comfort underground – is shown here. Complementing the paintings is an “Imagining” exercise of what local schoolchildren may be asking their elders about why the crisis was ever allowed to happen, how they felt living through it, and what they did about it. (Adapted from the work of Joanna Macy).
A second piece of text, Imagine a world… where love comes before profit, acknowledges that it can be really hard to know about the climate and nature crises and gives suggestions for what we do with this pain.
And just a reminder that our Arts Page is open for any Green Christian member who wishes to submit an image of their original artwork or poem on the theme of personal, emotional and spiritual reaction to the climate and nature crises.
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