The Harvest Cycle, painted live at the L4 Congress in Seoul, Korea 2024. 63x128” acrylic on canvas by Bryn Gillette and Alexis Newsom
This was the largest of canvases that Lexi and I stretched and painted on during the L4 congress. This was intended to the be foreshadowing and DNA of the 50th anniversary painting “prayer” over the assembled 6000 believers from 200+ nations before the unveiling of The Harvest painting on the last day. While Lexi and I knew just how much overlap there was in imagery, no one else did! We let the blue drip from above as “Let your Kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” We painted the harvest (as the harvest of souls) in gold to represent the value as well as the Lausanne Movement’s
The “Plower” image is an iconic symbol in my life. My mentor Bruce Herman first compared my role as a painter to the work of a plower when I was in my undergraduate study of fine art at Gordon College, and it has visually haunted my journey since. I painted the plower in 2015 on Easter only to have it be the day my nearly 3 year old daughter Kea accepted Christ… it is “her” painting now (Above), and the symbol is imbued with meaning of those who receive the “seed of the gospel”… and a metaphor of me. While I was added into the work as the Plower, Lexi posed and was added into the work as the Sower… followed by “The Harvester” whom will be central in the 50th anniversary work- inspire by Winslow Homer’s Veteran in a New Field.
The parallels with The Harvest- Lausanne Movement 50th anniversary are unmistakable. Click here to see the full blog post on the 50th.