Art

How Every Painting Is Built, Part 1 of 2: Choice of Medium and Why It Matters

Part 1 of 2 | Why the choice of medium is never just a technical decision

20 hrs ago • David Clayton

Buy an Original Landscape and Transform the Culture!

If you purchase this beautiful painting for your home. You will support the work of an artist and the gallery, and generate money for Scala Foundation…

May 27 • David Clayton

A Model Schema for Liturgical Art for All Catholic Churches

The Re-Ordering of St Mary’s Cathedral, Aberdeen, Scotland

Mar 28 • David Clayton

The Icon of the Transfiguration as a Symbol of Cultural Transformation

In this essay, I explore how beauty and culture led me to Catholic faith over thirty years ago, using an icon of the Transfiguration as a metaphor.

Jan 14 • David Clayton

Elijah And The Priests of Baal - An Anticipation of the Trinity

Is there a need for a new icon?

Dec 31, 2025 • David Clayton

Recommended Books For Those Who Want to Learn About Christian Symbolism In Sacred Art

I was recently asked for resources on learning about the symbolism traditionally used in Christian sacred art.

Dec 3, 2025 • David Clayton

Suffering Without Hope? The War Art of Francisco Goya

Examining Francisco Goya’s portrayal of brutality through a critical Christian lens.

Sep 10, 2025 • David Clayton

Reflecting the Hierarchy of Being in Visual Art

Or...Why How We Paint Christ Ought to Dictate How We Paint Everything Else

Aug 27, 2025 • David Clayton

Mary as the Untilled Field That Bears the 'Wheat Divine'

Call for artists - an image of Mary needed to portray an ancient symbol of the Theotokos!

Aug 13, 2025 • David Clayton

Visual Odes to Joy: How Sacred Art Reveals the Body, Soul and Divinity of Christ

This article examines how, for centuries, the Catholic Christian artistic tradition has portrayed Christ’s dual nature—human and divine—with a…

Jul 30, 2025 • David Clayton

The Woke Fallacy that Christian Art Generally Portrays Christ as a Northern European Man

I think that those who criticise the Christian artistic tradition for always presenting Christ as a northern European are wrong, and it reveals, on the…

Jul 16, 2025 • David Clayton

The Virgin Mary of Glory, A 20th-Century Ethnically Japanese Madonna and Child

A friend of mine recently sent me a postcard from her holiday in Japan with a beautiful painting of a Madonna and Child, which is in Osaka Cathedral.

Jul 2, 2025 • David Clayton

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