The Good Shepherd
| Hanna Varghese, who is from Selangor, Malaysia, has had a passion for painting and drawing for as long as she can remember. She works in the mediums of acrylic paint and Batik dye, the latter medium being an ancient decorative craft that has come into use as a high art medium in the last 50 or 60 years. A Batik image is created as a pattern or picture dyed in fabric. Certain parts of the fabric are covered with a wax, which acts as a "resist" to the colorful dyes. Hanna Varghese has mastered the medium, and the sacred art images she has created with it are original, bold and graphic.
Hanna was coordinator of the Malaysian Artists Fellowship, and served on the committee of the ACAA (Asian Christian Art Association) from 1998 to 2003. Her work has been featured in many journals and publications, and while she was artist in residence at the Overseas Ministries Study Center in 2006-2007, exhibitions of her work were held at the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale Divinity School,( "A Batik Bible"), and at Princeton Theological Seminary. "All creative work, be it the spoken word, the written word or the sung word, are essentials in praise and worship, meditation, education, inculturation and evangelism. This also includes art and pictures, which is universal seeing." |