The Episcopal Church and Visual Arts

Living With Death
By Corinne Collymore Peters
(Oil on canvas, 36" x 48", 2006)

Death of a Loved One

By Kathie McCarthy

If there is something about this to understand
It is perhaps that God feels like this
When we destroy the holy and the beautiful –
Simply because we must.

Without missing more than a beat or two
of God’s time, God rebuilds.

Perhaps God feels something like this
When flood and fire destroy
The holy and the beautiful –
Simply because they do.

Without missing more than a beat or two
of God’s time, God rebuilds.

It is certainly how we
the holy and beautiful children feel
When something we bring to life
or come to love is lost.

Kathie McCarthy lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington, where she works with the youth at Grace Episcopal Church. Kathie has been a massage therapist for twenty years and a therapist for eight. She currently teaches and writes about sexuality education for teenagers.

Email: topaz@sounddsl.com
Parish: Grace Episcopal Church - Bainbridge Island, Washington

Corinne Collymore Peters is an artist working in the medium of oil paints. She paints in a contemporary style, a style which she describes as abstract realism. It is the logical outcome of what happens when a New York abstract artist, absorbs the culture and images of the heart of the Renaissance, Florence, Italy.

Her art education started at St. John's University, in New York, culminating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. She furthered her formal studies of art, with a two year Master of Fine Arts program of study in Florence, Italy at the Villa Schifanoia, Graduate School of Fine Arts. Corinne has exhibited her work in several one-woman and group shows, in New York, New Jersey, Florence, and Paris, as well as earning various awards for her work.

Email: Corinne.collymore-peters@comcast.net
Web site: www.corinnepeters.com
Parish: St. David's Episcopal Church - Cranbury, New Jersey