‘THE VICTORY’

PAINTING STORY

One day after many promptings for me to do artwork for the Lord I prayed and said yes again and I asked Him to show me what He wanted me to paint. To be more precise I told Him that I would not paint again until He showed me. A few months later, One morning in my studio it happened, the Lord showed me the painting and I saw that it was very large!

I was amazed to see the idea of a crucifixion, as at that point, it never crossed my mind that I would ever paint it. Two days later an artist called me up, being overwhelmed in the process of moving. Having to clear out his large studio he offered me 2 identical size blank canvasses, they were enormous! And wow now they were mine! Yes together measuring 2 x 3 meters. I was amazed how things came together, so here we have the material and the idea.

The next thing was finding a Jesus model. He needed the hair and beard,and be the right age too! And low and behold in our very small seaside village we found him! We got introduced to a man who lives right in our town and looked very much like Jesus,yes!! And ,sure enough he was keen to pose as our Jesus Model.

We got going with our first photo shoot. This was here that my lovely wife, Janine applied her film industry skills of special effects make up needed for dressing up wounds of our new model for the photo shoot.

This painting when it was done stood in my studio all of its 2 x 3 meter size and we waited on the Lord, He ordered it, so He will take it further. The Joy magazine did a lovely article on the painting. After about 6 months at a friend’s birthday party, we bumped into Ilze Kleyn, she was then owner of “Die Boomhuis” the christian art gallery in Stellenbosch. She invited us that very night to bring our large painting to be part of a pesach exhibition. I felt the Father say to me that is what He wanted.

The exhibition was lovely and about a week later the gallery called to inform us that the painting had a buyer that would come and see me. And she added that the night before she heard our Abba father inform her that someone is coming the next day to purchase the painting. And so the circle was completed from concept to final purchase.

‘The Victory’ oil painting is owned and on permanent display in the retreat center called In Harmonie, situated on the wine farm La Motte in the outskirts of Franschoek, Western Cape South Africa

Prints are also available of this painting