Aslan Sings the Dawn: Painting Inspired by C.S. Lewis’ The Magicians Nephew.
During a church service in 2019, we were celebrating all the amazing facets and styles of worship and people God created. I was inspired to paint this highly textured composition of Aslan ( a lion character from C.S. Lewis' Narnia series) singing creation into being and imagining Jesus doing the same with all the different ways we have of worshiping with our lives.
Created in March, 2019, 11x14, the original has sold.
“In the darkness something was happening at last. A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction it was coming. Sometimes it seemed to come from all directions at once. Sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them. Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth herself. There were no words. It was hardly a tune. But it was beyond comparison, the most beautiful sound he had ever heard. It was so beautiful he could hardly bear it…” The Magician’s Nephew, C.S. Lewis
“He thinks great folly, child,’ said Aslan. “This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it into life still hangs in the air and rumbles in the ground. It will not be so for long. But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice. If I spoke to him, he would hear only growlings and roarings. Oh, Adam’s son, how cleverly you defend yourself against all that might do you good!” The Magician’s Nephew, C.S. Lewis
