Art Spotlight: Conversations in the Landscape

This week’s Art Spotlight Tuesday brings a piece still in progress, a mixed media work of oil paint and oil pastels, alive with conversation between texture and light.

As I sit with it, I’m reminded how much of our inner landscape also lives in that unfinished space, the in-between of what has been and what is still becoming. In prayer and contemplation, I find that the Spirit moves most gently here, between layers, where colour meets stillness and breath becomes a kind of quiet surrender.

As I work across the surface of this piece, the brush and pastel seemed to move slower than usual, almost as if they knew that something sacred was unfolding in its own time. There’s a humility in watching a landscape emerge this way. The trees rise, the clouds deepen, and still, there’s space left unfinished.

It reminds me that contemplation isn’t about completion it’s about communion. About being present enough to notice the quiet conversation happening between heaven and earth, paint and prayer, heart and hope.

Maybe this is what it means to live a creative life rooted in faith, to keep showing up to the canvas, to the day, and to the mystery, trusting that God is painting something far more beautiful than we can yet see.

Journal Prompt

Sit with something in your life that feels incomplete ~ a dream, a healing, a conversation, a work of art.

What might God be whispering to you through the unfinished edges?

And in closing dear readers let me say that Art Spotlight Tuesday feels like a pause, a moment to listen for what’s being spoken through the layers of colour and quiet. These pieces aren’t just artworks; they’re living prayers, reflections of what it means to be in conversation with the sacred through the act of creating.

If this piece or reflection stirred something in you, I’d love to hear what landscapes are forming in your own heart. You’re warmly invited to share your thoughts or prayers in the comments below as it’s in these shared conversations that our collective light grows brighter.

With peace and paint,

Lisa Raie 🎨