Celebrating the creation

Hot foot from church last Sunday we headed for the station and a train to Cambridge to visit the village of Coton (with our friends from theological college days, Simon and Anne)  where Alan Storkey, a lecturer from Oak Hill College, had an exhibition of his artwork.

Alan is a man of many parts: economist, sociologist, philospher. At college he taught us Sociology, Family Perspectives, and Pastoral Studies. He has a knack of looking at things in a fresh way, and of bringing a biblically informed Christian mind to any topic.

On top of this he is a thoroughly nice bloke - and an artist.

Various paintings by Alan were dotted around the college in our time (including this one on the right), but here in the village where he lived, was a wonderful display of his creativity (I'll come back to that) displayed in the church, the village hall, and the churchyard.

What was really good, in addition to seeing Alan, and his wife, Elaine, again, was hearing Alan's explanation of his work.

In his terms, it is not so much his creativity that is on display, but God's. What Alan has been trying to do is to display the infinite creativity of the creator God.

In my view, he has done that brilliantly. Scroll down for a bit more of the wonderful exhibition we enjoyed last Sunday:

Jesus teaching the crowds

John Stott, bible teacher

And finally the artist himself (middle):