Mystic Renovations

A figure built from timber battens and steel strapping stands between two blue crosses, flowering at the crown. One hand holds a hammer, the other a fistful of nails.

Bruce Luxford uses familiar Christian symbolism as metaphor, forces and restraints. The subject is renovation in both senses, the material extensions we build to meet physical wants, and the spiritual nourishment we make less room for.

Oils on canvas, 100 x 60 cm. Painted 2010. Signed lower left.