Michelle Arnold Paine

Oil on canvas 50" x 36" 2009These paintings are a metaphor for the struggle of my own experience to know Christ and seek to become more like his mother Mary.The tree, the vine, the branches—these images evoke the memory of our mother Eve, whose disobedience was...

Oil on canvas 70" x 52" 2007These cavernous structures were built for crowds of people and throngs of religious activity, but now hold only shadows of those presences. In the three years I spent living and working in Italy, I encountered these medieval places as...