Oasis Mural

So excited about making a feature wall of paintings for my church in Madrid http://oasismadrid.org/! They have a new space and asked me to make some paintings for it. It's a fantastic opportunity to work on a large scale which I love doing and to give back some of what the Church has given me. I've been thinking about how I can incorporate the church identity without it becoming too narrative. There were no specifications so I had to think about what would best suit the space and the people who use it.

The design has evolved as I have considered the proposal the past month. Throughout my time in Spain this church has truly been an "oasis" to me; somewhere I can go to be spiritually renewed and refreshed, so the paintings make reference to this. They will be a series of three paintings, displayed diagonally on the wall, and increasing by a third in size from top to bottom. Each one will contain the figure of a woman. Two paintings will display her completely immersed beneath the water and the other painting will show her lying on the surface of the water, a reflection of the sky under her. They will act as progressions, so that the eye travels diagonally upwards along the wall. Here's a mood board of ideas:

http://pinterest.com/pollyannajoy/oasis-mural-madrid/