St Aidan Statue

£1,650.00

I’ve always enjoyed drawing and painting statues from life, probably because they always sit still!

Amongst those in my collection are The Response and The Kiss.

I was once invited to produce a series of paintings for a group exhibition involving various local artists based around images of Holy Island. Not all the artists kept to the allocated theme, one of them exhibited a painting of elephants!

Most of my paintings were landscape watercolours of Holy Island, however I was quite taken by the St Aidan Statue. I produced a smaller watercolour painted on location and from this reference and the  photographs I took, I painted this larger study of the famous monk.

 

St Aidan Statue
St Aidan Statue

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Dimensions 35.5 × 48 cm
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Lindisfarne

The St Aidan Statue on Lindisfarne depicts the Irish monk and missionary He was credited with converting the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity in Northumbria. He founded a ministry cathedral on the island of Lindisfarne, known as Lindisfarne Priory in AD 635, served as its first bishop, and travelled ceaselessly throughout the countryside. St Aidan spread the gospel to both the Anglo-Saxon nobility and the socially disenfranchised (including children and slaves).

Bamburgh

He was closely associated with the royal court at Bamburgh and was credited with saving what was then, a city from fire and seige with his prayers. He was also a friend of the needy. The Venerable Bede says that he never travelled by horse and used the gifts he received from the rich and powerful to ransom the enslaved and aid the poor.

The St Aidan Statue was created by Kathleen Parbury in 1958 and is a beloved destination for many of the visitors to the Island.
Being exposed to the weather for the last 64 years caused cracks and damage.

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