"What is this? It exists both now and forever"

And in this he showed me a little thing, the quantity of a hazel nut, lying in the palm of my hand, as it seemed. And it was as round as any ball. I looked upon it with the eye of my understanding, and thought, ‘What is this?’ And it was answered generally thus, ‘It is all that is made.’ I marvelled how it might last, for I thought it might suddenly have fallen to nothing for littleness. And I was answered in my understanding: It lasts and ever shall, for God loves it. And so have all things their beginning by the love of God.

In this little thing I saw three properties. The first is that God made it. The second that God loves it. And the third, that God keeps it. 
                                                                                        Julian of Norwich, 1342 - 1416

"What is this?  It exists now and forever"

Mother Julian was an English anchorite of the Middle Ages.  She is remembered for her writings in “Revelations of Divine Love”, the earliest surviving book in the English language to be written by a woman.   She is enshrined in the Church of St Julian, in Norwich.  

Johanna is an actress with a beautiful speaking voice - mellifluous and redolent with enunciation and purpose.  She had in the 1980s made a talk for the BBC’s religious programme about Julian of Norwich. 

At the time, Johanna sent me a cassette of this programme (remember cassettes?) which I played often.  It kept me company in the long hours of working towards an exhibition.   So, when she commissioned a painting it came straightaway that this was to involve Julian of Norwich, as the reading was a high point in Johanna’s career, and my Australian Nature Finds series. 

This little painting is now available as a framed,
artist-signed print.  (23 x 18 cm HxW)
$45 + packaging / post