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But first an Interview with Pattie Anne Hale
In His Prescence by Pattie Anne Hale
Where are you based?
I live in Bristol, which is a small city that rests in two states, Virginia and Tennessee. The state line actually runs down the center of our historic downtown area. Bristol, the Birthplace of Country Music, has a wonderful heritage in music and the arts of the Appalachian Mountains. The mountains and its people, with our rich culture of hardship, endurance, creativity, and love for nature and family are a great inspiration to me. I draw a lot of strength from these strong mountains.
When did you first start prophetic painting and how did God show you that was what he wanted
you to do?
I can’t really speak about how I moved into prophetic painting without talking about how that unfolded actually from my childhood. I emphatically believe anyone can pick up a paintbrush and paint prophetically with a little instruction and encouragement to do so because I believe there is an artist in every person and that God wants to speak to everyone creatively. However, with my particular journey it has been a lifelong cultivation. I’ve always been interested in the divine in art – the element of expression that went beyond what the eye could see and somehow touched the beauty of God.
Even as a child I loved Holy Spirit, and being raised in the Pentecostal faith, I experienced His touch a lot. I have many fond memories of revivals, and camp-meetings and watching people have a great time in the Lord, which we would call Holy Ghost parties. Though the Pentecostal faith was, and still is, rigid in some ways, I think seeing people worship in freedom like that and seeing people being authentically healed, delivered, and ecstatically joyful in God’s Presence ingrained something in me that helped me to know that freedom of expression is beautiful and God loves it and He moves through it! Expression is so important in prophetic or worship painting.
I can remember as a child loving a set of illustrated Bible stories along with this one certain book of riddles and nursery rhymes, which was my poetry. There was another book, which was given out at our school called, “All Things Bright and Beautiful” which was full of prayers, graces and poems with beautiful watercolor illustrations. I cherished those illustrations and words. I was raised in a small place in the Appalachian Mountains. We didn’t go to the city. We didn’t have museums. This was my art. This was my study. In many ways this was my devotional. As a child, I loved God so much and He was speaking to me through the words and pictures in these books. There was a sense of wonder and love for His word and for the magical that was planted deep in me through those books. I see those same elements all the time now in my art.
I’ve always been an artist, since I could hold a crayon. I’ve been drawing, crafting and painting for as long as I can remember. As a child, I would practice drawing by copying the illustrations from the books I mentioned. I studied the way the artists formed the figures and the faces. I studied the color washes and the linework that made it fanciful. These were my first art lessons. Though the drawing was technical, I was also soaking up the words of the stories – learning how to “say” something with the art. Faces were my favorite things and it led me to a habit of studying faces – then onto studying people – their character – which made me very perceptive. All along, God was preparing me to move in the prophetic – he was preparing me to understand people’s hearts so that I could speak His heart to theirs. Even while I was a teenager and far from the Lord, I could really perceive things about others because I was so observant. This developed a great empathy in me that was at times overbearing, especially as I would particularly seem to carry other people’s sadness. I remember that I wrote a poem in high school about a girl whom I had continually observed during lunch break who seemed to be very withdrawn and sad. It was a poem to her, a hopeful kind of poem to lift her head up and know that she was beautiful… but I never gave her the poem. She died of cancer while we were still in school. It was then that I think I began to realize that art could change things – if I had only given her the poem would it have made a difference in her concept of herself? Would it have helped her see in her young mind how beautiful she really was? The Lord was shaping me even then, when I was seemingly not close to His heart, to be an intercessor, which is another strong element of my artwork.
I’ll skip through my artistic exploration, technically and conceptually, of striving to make great art. By my mid-twenties, I had been to New York and Washington, D.C. I saw the masters, the modern art, the bigness and the beauty. I studied the Masters. I studied techniques. I studied concepts. I had eaten, breathed and lived “art.” There was a constant study going on of art and God’s word. I always felt like I was trying to get at something in art and wisdom that was always just out of reach. There was a lot of unnecessary striving then, but I was my own teacher in this thing. There was no one to help me step into this “grand” thing I knew was out there. I had never heard of prophetic or worship art. All I knew was that I needed somehow to artistically touch the depth and height of what I experienced with Holy Spirit, though I couldn’t have put it into those words at the time. There was just this aching of knowing I needed to someway do art that was not really about God, but that was of God. There was this inner need to paint what I experienced with Him and also this yearning to become a conduit that He could use to express Himself. It was frustrating not knowing how to do that, but I finally began to let go of my striving for it and allowed Holy Spirit to teach me. I’m still learning.
In 2002, I felt the calling to minister – to teach. For about 8 months, I was in continual study of the Word, prayer, fasting, and quietness. I read the Bible completely through a couple times in those months and studied intensely. I could not get enough of His Word… it was literally as the psalmist said, a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. I was in love with the Word. During this time, I began to draw sketches while I would pray. I’m not sure why I thought to do this but they were very simple sketches on print paper with colored pencils. As I would draw, I would hear the Lord speak to me about a certain person or a certain situation. This was kind of flipping me out but when I would give it to the person, there would be confirmation that what I drew was a message to them. I remember that during this time I went to a 24 hour worship service at Jubilee Junction, the MorningStar fellowship in Wilkesboro, NC. I took with me my paper and colored pencils and I sketched at a table while the worship was taking place. It seemed just something I could do there with freedom because people were all praying in their own way, some dancing, some lying on the floor, some standing or sitting or journaling. When I began to draw, the flow of images, words, colors, and expression coming into my spirit was overwhelming. I couldn’t draw fast enough! A lady there, who had been on one of the worship sets came to my table to talk with me and she wanted to see my drawings. When she saw them, she began to interpret or prophesy what she was seeing in the drawings. She spoke things to me that only God could have known. The drawings were symbolic expressions about circumstances in my life though I did not even know or see that until she began to look at the drawings and prophesy to me. She prophesied of things that were present and were to come in my life that I didn’t even know about until months later after those things were revealed and had come to pass. She was not only reading the expression of my soul but what I had drawn and what she prophesied was concerning external situations with other people in my life and what the Lord had to say about those things. Holy Spirit had taken me into the depth of what I had wanted to express. I was hearing, seeing and expressing His heart. Holy Spirit has taught me so much since then. It’s a wonderful journey and I’m continually learning more.
What/who are your inspirations?
My primary inspirations are the scriptures and a meditation on them and the movement and quickening of Holy Spirit.
Concerning artists that have inspired me, I loved Norman Rockwell as a child. Again, withoutmuseums or galleries, a huge book of Norman Rockwell prints from the library was my gallery.
I loved the way he brought out the character of people. It inspired and fed my love of studying people. I also was extremely interested in the work of John Singer Sargeant for several years when I was younger. There was something of the way he captured the intensity of a person’s character, yet left so much of the total person undefined. This gave me an appreciation of the mystery in everyone – the undefined areas that are very beautiful simply because they are not defined. Some of my other favorites are: Michelangelo because of his boldness with form and his ability to capture the divine quality in the human figure; Kandinsky – I appreciate him more for his philosophy put forth in “Concerning the Spiritual in Art” rather than specifically for his paintings; Paul Klee for his use of color and dreamlike forms that sing off the canvas. Two of my favorite contemporary Christian artists that inspired me early on when I started learning about prophetic/worship art are Jeremy and Jamie Wells with Artworship (http://www.artworship.org/Paintings.html) They inspired me as much with their forerunner ministry with the Arts as they did with their paintings which are amazing and powerful.
The arts in all forms greatly inspire me. I’m continually hunting for beauty and something new, whether that be in a book that has a new use of language or a new sound in a band or a musical artist I’ve never heard, or forms of dance or drama that are pushing the limits of what has been done. I’m continually hunting for the new and the beautiful and that finds its way into my art and my philosophy about what God is doing in the earth now. When I see something brand new, no matter what form it comes to me, whether it is in a sound or in a fashion design, it resonates with me – the essence of it… and then that becomes some new kind of expression that resonates also in a different way in my own work and communication. We are all so connected. Music is the largest element of inspiration for me. I always listen to music when I paint.
Describe your studio?
One thing I’ve enjoyed is that my family has moved around a lot, living in many different kinds of houses from 100 year old farmhouses to a city apartment, but in thinking about describing my studio, I have always had my studio central to the house – never tucked away from everything – though I’ll admit I have fantasized about that at times. My children and husband have often played in my studio along with me, but even when they aren’t creating, they are always involved in my process, giving me feedback, encouragement, and lots of dialogue about what is going on with me creatively. Art is life… so I’ve always wanted my studio to be a shared part of our home. My studio now is a corner of my family room next to my office area, which shares the same space. Sometimes it can be frustrating if I want to paint while one of the kids want to watch tv, but I think purposefully having to share space and passions in a family helps us all to keep balanced and honor one another. Art is my passion, but it has to find its place within family so that we all can be passionately creative in various ways. When my husband is cooking (his creative passion) nearby in the kitchen and I’m at my easel painting, and my children are nearby scouting for new music, or watching a movie, or scrapbooking or reading… well to me, that is the best creative experience. Art is about connection – not only to God, but to people.
I love the easel you have made out of an old door, do you have any other nifty creations like that
you can share with us?
The door came from an old barn when we were restoring a 100 year old farmhouse. My husband found it and cleaned it up for me. I came home after being out for the day and he had hung it as our bedroom door. I immediately fell in love with it. My husband, Wayne, said, “I didn’t paint it because I knew you would love it the way it was – all this old paint and wood.” He didn’t especially love it but he knew I would So of course, when I recently moved from that house, I brought the door with me. It is a perfect easel.
For storage in my studio, I use antique suitcases to hold a lot of my materials. They look great sitting around and hold a lot of materials. I also use flat tray-like baskets that I stack in a tall vertical “column” to hold lots of paint and collage materials – fibers, paint, antique jewelry, and scrap papers. I like the look of some of my art materials and tools being seen. I think a mason jar full of old worn-out paintbrushes is as beautiful as a fine vase of flowers.
Do you have any favourite worship music you like listening to when you paint?
My favorite is usually the newest thing I’ve found that is stirring my spirit. I do love soaking music
and music with a prophetic flow like from IHOP, MorningStar, and Bethel. I’m finding that there is so much new sound coming forth from everywhere, especially independent artists that almost every day I hear something new. Music is really leading the way into the new, I believe. Visual artists will do well to connect with that and honor it.
Do you have a favourite colour ?
When did you first start prophetic painting and how did God show you that was what he wanted
you to do?
I can’t really speak about how I moved into prophetic painting without talking about how that unfolded actually from my childhood. I emphatically believe anyone can pick up a paintbrush and paint prophetically with a little instruction and encouragement to do so because I believe there is an artist in every person and that God wants to speak to everyone creatively. However, with my particular journey it has been a lifelong cultivation. I’ve always been interested in the divine in art – the element of expression that went beyond what the eye could see and somehow touched the beauty of God.
Even as a child I loved Holy Spirit, and being raised in the Pentecostal faith, I experienced His touch a lot. I have many fond memories of revivals, and camp-meetings and watching people have a great time in the Lord, which we would call Holy Ghost parties. Though the Pentecostal faith was, and still is, rigid in some ways, I think seeing people worship in freedom like that and seeing people being authentically healed, delivered, and ecstatically joyful in God’s Presence ingrained something in me that helped me to know that freedom of expression is beautiful and God loves it and He moves through it! Expression is so important in prophetic or worship painting.
I can remember as a child loving a set of illustrated Bible stories along with this one certain book of riddles and nursery rhymes, which was my poetry. There was another book, which was given out at our school called, “All Things Bright and Beautiful” which was full of prayers, graces and poems with beautiful watercolor illustrations. I cherished those illustrations and words. I was raised in a small place in the Appalachian Mountains. We didn’t go to the city. We didn’t have museums. This was my art. This was my study. In many ways this was my devotional. As a child, I loved God so much and He was speaking to me through the words and pictures in these books. There was a sense of wonder and love for His word and for the magical that was planted deep in me through those books. I see those same elements all the time now in my art.
I’ve always been an artist, since I could hold a crayon. I’ve been drawing, crafting and painting for as long as I can remember. As a child, I would practice drawing by copying the illustrations from the books I mentioned. I studied the way the artists formed the figures and the faces. I studied the color washes and the linework that made it fanciful. These were my first art lessons. Though the drawing was technical, I was also soaking up the words of the stories – learning how to “say” something with the art. Faces were my favorite things and it led me to a habit of studying faces – then onto studying people – their character – which made me very perceptive. All along, God was preparing me to move in the prophetic – he was preparing me to understand people’s hearts so that I could speak His heart to theirs. Even while I was a teenager and far from the Lord, I could really perceive things about others because I was so observant. This developed a great empathy in me that was at times overbearing, especially as I would particularly seem to carry other people’s sadness. I remember that I wrote a poem in high school about a girl whom I had continually observed during lunch break who seemed to be very withdrawn and sad. It was a poem to her, a hopeful kind of poem to lift her head up and know that she was beautiful… but I never gave her the poem. She died of cancer while we were still in school. It was then that I think I began to realize that art could change things – if I had only given her the poem would it have made a difference in her concept of herself? Would it have helped her see in her young mind how beautiful she really was? The Lord was shaping me even then, when I was seemingly not close to His heart, to be an intercessor, which is another strong element of my artwork.
Entering His Rest by Pattie Anne Hale
I’ll skip through my artistic exploration, technically and conceptually, of striving to make great art. By my mid-twenties, I had been to New York and Washington, D.C. I saw the masters, the modern art, the bigness and the beauty. I studied the Masters. I studied techniques. I studied concepts. I had eaten, breathed and lived “art.” There was a constant study going on of art and God’s word. I always felt like I was trying to get at something in art and wisdom that was always just out of reach. There was a lot of unnecessary striving then, but I was my own teacher in this thing. There was no one to help me step into this “grand” thing I knew was out there. I had never heard of prophetic or worship art. All I knew was that I needed somehow to artistically touch the depth and height of what I experienced with Holy Spirit, though I couldn’t have put it into those words at the time. There was just this aching of knowing I needed to someway do art that was not really about God, but that was of God. There was this inner need to paint what I experienced with Him and also this yearning to become a conduit that He could use to express Himself. It was frustrating not knowing how to do that, but I finally began to let go of my striving for it and allowed Holy Spirit to teach me. I’m still learning.
In 2002, I felt the calling to minister – to teach. For about 8 months, I was in continual study of the Word, prayer, fasting, and quietness. I read the Bible completely through a couple times in those months and studied intensely. I could not get enough of His Word… it was literally as the psalmist said, a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. I was in love with the Word. During this time, I began to draw sketches while I would pray. I’m not sure why I thought to do this but they were very simple sketches on print paper with colored pencils. As I would draw, I would hear the Lord speak to me about a certain person or a certain situation. This was kind of flipping me out but when I would give it to the person, there would be confirmation that what I drew was a message to them. I remember that during this time I went to a 24 hour worship service at Jubilee Junction, the MorningStar fellowship in Wilkesboro, NC. I took with me my paper and colored pencils and I sketched at a table while the worship was taking place. It seemed just something I could do there with freedom because people were all praying in their own way, some dancing, some lying on the floor, some standing or sitting or journaling. When I began to draw, the flow of images, words, colors, and expression coming into my spirit was overwhelming. I couldn’t draw fast enough! A lady there, who had been on one of the worship sets came to my table to talk with me and she wanted to see my drawings. When she saw them, she began to interpret or prophesy what she was seeing in the drawings. She spoke things to me that only God could have known. The drawings were symbolic expressions about circumstances in my life though I did not even know or see that until she began to look at the drawings and prophesy to me. She prophesied of things that were present and were to come in my life that I didn’t even know about until months later after those things were revealed and had come to pass. She was not only reading the expression of my soul but what I had drawn and what she prophesied was concerning external situations with other people in my life and what the Lord had to say about those things. Holy Spirit had taken me into the depth of what I had wanted to express. I was hearing, seeing and expressing His heart. Holy Spirit has taught me so much since then. It’s a wonderful journey and I’m continually learning more.
What/who are your inspirations?
My primary inspirations are the scriptures and a meditation on them and the movement and quickening of Holy Spirit.
Concerning artists that have inspired me, I loved Norman Rockwell as a child. Again, withoutmuseums or galleries, a huge book of Norman Rockwell prints from the library was my gallery.
I loved the way he brought out the character of people. It inspired and fed my love of studying people. I also was extremely interested in the work of John Singer Sargeant for several years when I was younger. There was something of the way he captured the intensity of a person’s character, yet left so much of the total person undefined. This gave me an appreciation of the mystery in everyone – the undefined areas that are very beautiful simply because they are not defined. Some of my other favorites are: Michelangelo because of his boldness with form and his ability to capture the divine quality in the human figure; Kandinsky – I appreciate him more for his philosophy put forth in “Concerning the Spiritual in Art” rather than specifically for his paintings; Paul Klee for his use of color and dreamlike forms that sing off the canvas. Two of my favorite contemporary Christian artists that inspired me early on when I started learning about prophetic/worship art are Jeremy and Jamie Wells with Artworship (http://www.artworship.org/Paintings.html) They inspired me as much with their forerunner ministry with the Arts as they did with their paintings which are amazing and powerful.
The arts in all forms greatly inspire me. I’m continually hunting for beauty and something new, whether that be in a book that has a new use of language or a new sound in a band or a musical artist I’ve never heard, or forms of dance or drama that are pushing the limits of what has been done. I’m continually hunting for the new and the beautiful and that finds its way into my art and my philosophy about what God is doing in the earth now. When I see something brand new, no matter what form it comes to me, whether it is in a sound or in a fashion design, it resonates with me – the essence of it… and then that becomes some new kind of expression that resonates also in a different way in my own work and communication. We are all so connected. Music is the largest element of inspiration for me. I always listen to music when I paint.
Describe your studio?
One thing I’ve enjoyed is that my family has moved around a lot, living in many different kinds of houses from 100 year old farmhouses to a city apartment, but in thinking about describing my studio, I have always had my studio central to the house – never tucked away from everything – though I’ll admit I have fantasized about that at times. My children and husband have often played in my studio along with me, but even when they aren’t creating, they are always involved in my process, giving me feedback, encouragement, and lots of dialogue about what is going on with me creatively. Art is life… so I’ve always wanted my studio to be a shared part of our home. My studio now is a corner of my family room next to my office area, which shares the same space. Sometimes it can be frustrating if I want to paint while one of the kids want to watch tv, but I think purposefully having to share space and passions in a family helps us all to keep balanced and honor one another. Art is my passion, but it has to find its place within family so that we all can be passionately creative in various ways. When my husband is cooking (his creative passion) nearby in the kitchen and I’m at my easel painting, and my children are nearby scouting for new music, or watching a movie, or scrapbooking or reading… well to me, that is the best creative experience. Art is about connection – not only to God, but to people.
you can share with us?
The door came from an old barn when we were restoring a 100 year old farmhouse. My husband found it and cleaned it up for me. I came home after being out for the day and he had hung it as our bedroom door. I immediately fell in love with it. My husband, Wayne, said, “I didn’t paint it because I knew you would love it the way it was – all this old paint and wood.” He didn’t especially love it but he knew I would So of course, when I recently moved from that house, I brought the door with me. It is a perfect easel.
For storage in my studio, I use antique suitcases to hold a lot of my materials. They look great sitting around and hold a lot of materials. I also use flat tray-like baskets that I stack in a tall vertical “column” to hold lots of paint and collage materials – fibers, paint, antique jewelry, and scrap papers. I like the look of some of my art materials and tools being seen. I think a mason jar full of old worn-out paintbrushes is as beautiful as a fine vase of flowers.
Do you have any favourite worship music you like listening to when you paint?
My favorite is usually the newest thing I’ve found that is stirring my spirit. I do love soaking music
and music with a prophetic flow like from IHOP, MorningStar, and Bethel. I’m finding that there is so much new sound coming forth from everywhere, especially independent artists that almost every day I hear something new. Music is really leading the way into the new, I believe. Visual artists will do well to connect with that and honor it.
Do you have a favourite colour ?
In recent years, I went through a season of blues and greens. Aqua was a very prophetic color for me – a color of restoration. When the Lord revealed to me the intensity of that color in a very personal way, I changed everything. I had a yard sale and sold out all my previously darker colors of ochre, sage and burgundy and replaced as much as possible with shades of turquoise and aqua. I did the same with my clothes and jewelry. It wasn’t like I just chose to do that – it came out of this inner need to have that color surrounding me. Almost everything I painted was in those color ranges.
Recently, I’m moving into a season of purples though it is a slower transition than with the aqua. I’m really loving lots of color – falling in love with the way color sings together. My newest painting, “Breaking into Joy” is an exploration of that concept. It seems the Lord is teaching me something of passion and healing with the color purple and also simultaneously teaching me about promise – thus the full color spectrum of the rainbow.
What materials do you use to paint with?
In my paintings I primarily use Liquitex Heavy Body Acrylics, with Liquitex gloss medium and varnish on good quality gallery wrapped cotton canvas. I also love to paint on wood – especially birch, because of its symbolic quality of renewal and luminosity. I like to use acrylics on the wood in various textures – thick and also transparently. The transparent technique allows the wood grain to show through and it reminds me of my love of working with watercolor, which I worked with primarily for several years in my twenties. I do a lot with collage, so my list of materials are unending but some of my favorite materials are: antique sheet music, dictionaries, hymns, and letters, fibers, watch faces, vintage jewelry, translucent envelopes, vintage ties, vintage fabric, and fine glitter.
Have you ever done a live painting within a church or conference? If so what were your thoughts
the first time you got asked to do it? How does God help you in this process?
Early on I used my art to serve the church with projects like murals for children’s rooms, craft projects, decorating, Easter dramas, etc. – the more expected ways of serving the church with art. However when I started moving into prophetic and worship expression, I would take a sketch book and sketch during worship and intercession meetings. The intercession meetings were less formal so I had more freedom with the art in those. Doing this and seeing how it blessed people and continually “spoke” to people prophetically was a great encouragement. The first time I was asked to paint during church was an Easter service. I can remember the pastor introduced me as a part of the worship team and explaining to the congregation that the art was a part of worship – a visual worship. I realize now how honorable it was of him to see it that way. That first time was exhilarating. Holy Spirit came so powerfully and I could feel him painting with me. I trembled and wept. It was great but it’s kind of funny remembering it because I think it was the ugliest painting I ever did. Sometimes the experience is so much more important than the ending product.
When I moved to Charlotte, NC and worked at MorningStar as a layout artist in publications and as the art gallery director, I painted on the worship arts team continually. MorningStar had been involving painters during conferences for years, but during the Breakout of 2007, which was a revival that went on for about 4 months, we began to paint during every service – this still continues. This gave me a lot of opportunity to paint during a variety of meetings from Sunday mornings to smaller week-night services to huge dynamic conference meetings. Painting at MorningStar was always wonderful – there is such a Presence of the Lord there – that always makes it easier.
I paint in my home church during our Sunday meetings and occasionally in other churches when I travel and do workshops. When I paint live during worship services, I never have a plan of what I’m going to do. For me, it’s like a conversation with the Lord, a visual prayer language where I pray and then I listen and I reflect visually what the Lord is saying to me. Sometimes its words but often He speaks to me through the rhythm and flow of the physical action of worship and the total “feel” of the process. How the paint flows, or drips, or sticks, the way the colors dance with one another, the way forms come to life right under my brush without my intention - all this speaks to me – resonates with me and I hear His voice in it. For example – I may be painting a circular motion with a color I feel impressed to use and I’m just enjoying the dance of the motion – worshiping the Lord with the movement and with the beauty of the color, but then I will have this deep understanding that is more complex than literal language that He is completing something in me or bringing me “full circle.” The color or the forms may remind me of something that resonates with something else I’ve experienced or something I’ve been pondering and so the process of worship actually precedes and goes on further than the actual time I’m in front of the canvas. This is praying without ceasing. For instance, I may have taken a walk in the woods and fell in love with the way a new leaf is unfolding – the shape of it – and so I ponder on the beauty of a new thing. Well, then when I’m painting, the same shape forms abstractly while I’m layering on color and line… and I’m immediately taken back to the place of pondering about the leaf – about newness. I know this is not only my experience, but whatever is being highlighted to me in that moment when I am there in front of the people is also something God is highlighting to be expressed in that time and place – in that atmosphere. I’m assured that someone there watching needs to also experience the “new” and so it becomes no longer only my pondering, but I begin to release what the Lord is pouring through me in the area of a refreshing and newness. It shifts
the atmosphere – just like music can and does. This is almost always confirmed by someone coming to me, and sharing that they were experiencing whatever it may be that I was ministering visually. This is the best part – when you know that the art has witnessed to someone – that some connection was made that was from Heaven and now has been brought to earth – to the hearts of His people. In these moments, I feel completely whole.
Do you paint to make a living or do you have other work?
I have worked in other creative jobs to make a living, but I am currently pursuing full-time ministry and focusing on my personal career as an artist. With ministry, I have just begun a creative community in Bristol which is connected with The Worship Studio in Asheville, NC where Matt Tommey is the founder. (www.theworshipstudio.org) I am also welcoming invitations to travel and do art workshops and speak about the arts at churches or artist groups. Currently I am doing lots of new things with my work; getting ready to launch out with some new things with my brand Journeyartfully through Etsy, which will be a light-hearted direction for me. Through Journeyartfully I will offer small art pieces, prints, journals, jewelry, and whatever else I may get a whim to create. This lighthearted direction will give me freedom to just play and offer some beauty… the ponderings of my heart. On the other hand, I am also simultaneously pursuing a heavier, more serious direction with my fine art that will be larger works for galleries.
Where do you see yourself in 5 years from now?
Still chasing the Beauty.
Vision by Pattie Anne Hale
Interview by Alison Louise
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