POPE JOHN PAUL II
LETTER TO ARTISTS 1999

To all who are passionately dedicated to the search for new “epiphanies” of beauty
so that through their creative work as artists they may offer these as gifts to the world.

An appeal to artists
14. With this Letter, I turn to you, the artists of the world, to assure you of my esteem and to help consolidate a more constructive partnership between art and the Church. Mine is an invitation to rediscover the depth of the spiritual and religious dimension which has been typical of art in its noblest forms in every age. It is with this in mind that I appeal to you, artists of the written and spoken word, of the theatre and music, of the plastic arts and the most recent technologies in the field of communication. I appeal especially to you, Christian artists: I wish to remind each of you that, beyond functional considerations, the close alliance that has always existed between the Gospel and art means that you are invited to use your creative intuition to enter into the heart of the mystery of the Incarnate God and at the same time into the mystery of man.

Human beings, in a certain sense, are unknown to themselves. Jesus Christ not only reveals God, but “fully reveals man to man”.(23) In Christ, God has reconciled the world to himself. All believers are called to bear witness to this; but it is up to you, men and women who have given your lives to art, to declare with all the wealth of your ingenuity
that in Christ the world is redeemed: the human person is redeemed, the human body is redeemed, and the whole creation which, according to Saint Paul, “awaits impatiently the revelation of the children of God” (Rom 8:19), is redeemed. The creation awaits the revelation of the children of God also through art and in art. This is your task. Humanity in every age, and even today, looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny.

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Painted Psalms Art Gallery is intent on lighting the lamp of the human body –
the eye. And the lamp of the human soul – the heart.

". . .the close alliance that has always existed between the Gospel and art means that you are invited to use your creative intuition to enter into the heart of the mystery of the Incarnate God and at the same time into the mystery of man."
Pope John Paul II Letter to Artists 1999



COLLECTION I:
"SOUL SHIMMER"
An Art Gallery that flows as a watershed from a spring to a river to the sea . . .
Celebrating all that makes our souls shimmer.

COLLECTION II:
"OPULENT HEART"
An Art Gallery that celebrates the mysteries of the heart.
Searching for a heart of gold, opulemt riches found in a heart renewed.
Where your treasure is, there your heart will follow . . .





COLLECTION III:
"EPHEMERAL POOL"
An Art Gallery that celebrates the Original Green Movement
as commisioned to the first man and woman in the Garden . . .
We as Christians continue on, not only with a sense of reverence and awe
for the splendor of Creation, but even more so for HIM who created.



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