By stushie

I’m a Scottish Presbyterian pastor, ministering in East Tennessee. Art is a creative therapy for me.


24 Responses to “About”


  1. 1 mysticmiss
    December 10, 2008 at 11:59 am

    hi love your artwork it is so colourful and creative, truly beautiful.

    http://www.mysticmiss.wordpress.com

  2. December 15, 2008 at 4:15 pm

    Thanks for sharing some of your creative works on this blog.
    Advent & Christmas Blessings!

  3. 4 Dan
    March 8, 2009 at 3:33 am

    Your work is fresh and Christ-centered. Thank God!

    Is your art available for use on other web sites (as thumbnails)? I realize that we’ve inadvertently copied some graphics without permission.

    • 5 stushie
      March 8, 2009 at 4:26 am

      Thank you, Dan. I appreciate your encouraging words. if you would like to use the art on a website, then please let me know where it will appear. I usually grant access to the pictures but I like to know how they will be used.

      I’m working on a Psalms project and have almost finished the first 50. if you would like to see them as a slide show, please go to the following link:

      http://www.flickr.com/photos/traqair57/sets/72157603288751629/show/

      I’d love to exhibit them – it’s an ongoing 3 year project.

  4. 6 Jay
    March 23, 2009 at 6:44 am

    I am the editor for a magazine issued by 4 small rural congregations in Victoria, Australia. I would like to use “Like a rolling stone” on the front cover of “The Link” for April.
    I love the bright colours of your art work.

  5. 8 Kel
    March 25, 2009 at 9:43 pm

    Hello!
    I just had to let you know that I find your art beautiful, energetic yet peaceful all at the same time. I came across your work by chance. I am a primary school teacher working in a church school in the UK. I decided to teach the easter story through art, hoping to encourage the children to think of the emotion involved in a different way. I hope you don’t mind but I would like to use your art work as a starting point and discussion base for the children in my class. They are aged 10/11 years old and I know they would find your artwork wonderful too. If you have any suggestions or ‘tips’ for my children I’m sure they would be very excited to hear from an artist.
    Thank you so much for your time.

  6. April 7, 2009 at 6:55 am

    Thanks for sharing your art with all.
    Sincerely yours
    Ole

  7. 11 Roseann
    April 9, 2009 at 1:32 pm

    Your work is wonderful, so colorful.

    I am wondering if Memorial Presbyterian Church could use one of your pieces on the cover of our order of worship for our sunrise service on Easter? I would like to use either “Easter Sun” or Like A Rolling Stone”. If permission could be granted it would be a blessing for our congregation.

    Thank you

  8. April 9, 2009 at 7:24 pm

    Your work is beautiful! May I use “Like a Rolling Stone” on the cover of my congregation Easter bulletin this week?

    I am pastor at St. John’s Lutheran, ELCA in Beaufort SC. We expect nearly 375 people this week!

    We just got a color copier and it would be a glorious first use of the machine on Easter Sunday.

    I have a question: what medium do you work in? Is this digitally generated?

    All the work is so vibrant and full of life. I love it!

    Peace,
    Pastor P. Shannon Mullen

  9. April 12, 2009 at 5:33 pm

    Hi, I am a worship Leader at a Methodist Churhc in Felixstowe, UK – also responsible for maintaining the Church web site. Your images are so lively and powerfull – I would greatly appreciate permission to use them on our web site from time to time (with a link to your site so that others can share in all your work) + to use them in worship (as patr of our Powerpoint slides.

    Hope this will be OK with you.

    Every blessing

    Robin

  10. 15 Patty
    June 4, 2009 at 1:19 pm

    I found your work to be incredible. I am often looking for special pieces for our contemporary service(s) powerpoint. I would like to ask permission to use your works in this media?

    Blessings,
    Patty Chance
    Resurrection Lutheran Church
    Lebanon, Ohio

  11. 16 Ellen Witko
    July 27, 2009 at 6:19 pm

    I LOVE YOUR ART!!! May Brookside Community Church UCC in Brookside Church use your Psalm 16 art on our bulletin cover this Sunday, August 2, 2009? Thanks, Ellen Witko, Association Minister

  12. August 6, 2009 at 2:37 am

    Good evening! I know this is very short notice, but we would love to use your art of Breaking Bread on our worship bulletin this Sunday. If you would be willing to send me a ‘bio’ we would like to put that in the bulletin as well, and note your website. Thank you for considering this request! Blessings, Pastor Lorelei

  13. 18 Becky Coleman
    August 7, 2009 at 2:48 pm

    I work for two small urban churches in Minneapolis. We would like to use your art posted for Aug. 9 as a bulletin cover at Epworth UMC and as part of our worship Powerpoint for the New Congregation UMC (formerly Oakland/Asbury UMC). Thank you for sharing. Becky Coleman, secretary to both congregations

  14. August 13, 2009 at 3:46 am

    Hi there! I am so taken with your art and wonder if you can email me – I would like to use one of your designs in a piece of beveled glass jewelry.

    (My website is under construction – I am transitioning from stained glass to beveled glass jewelry).

    I sure hope to hear from you!

    Thanks,
    Christy Marchand

  15. 20 Steve Thompson
    August 21, 2009 at 11:22 pm

    I like your art and was wondering if I could use some of it as a powerpoint for my Sunday morning worship at church. For example, I was thinking of using the praying hands during the call to prayer. Thanks!

  16. 22 Shuyi Lin
    September 18, 2009 at 1:55 am

    Hi, I really like your piece “Ethnic Art: Face to Face” and I was wondering if I can use your piece to do a critical research. If I can, i am hoping you can provide me some more information on the piece such on Medium and size and date. thank you

  17. November 20, 2009 at 8:21 pm

    Can I use your thanksgiving abstract from last year for the cover of our bulletin on Sunday (Village Presbyterian Church, Ladera Ranch, California)? And, perhaps, an advent image or two in the weeks ahead on the overhead projector? Will include a credit in the bulletin. We are a new church in south Orange County with about 100 in worship each Sunday. Thanks!


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