Fiona Pfennigwerth

What does the natural beauty of Australia have to do with Christian hope?

I am an artist based in Newcastle, Australia, seeking to connect the two, through my naturalistic watercolour paintings, designed to be reproduced alongside text: ‘words and pictures together… telling the sacred story’, as a character in Robyn Cadwallader’s 2018 novel Book of Colours writes.

Books

These books make great presents for people who love the Bible, or love pictures of nature, or who love the Australian landscape – especially those who live overseas.

These works aim to present Bible books invitingly and clearly for meditative study. In these, the text of the English Standard Version of the Bible is set out in a readable way that is sympathetic to the original authors’ voices; and accompanied by naturalistic illustrations of the Australian bush, which suggest their individual timbre and themes.

Now available are all three of my volumes combining Bible books and my illustrations:

In hardcover, 208 pages A4 landscape, The Book of Psalms illuminated presents the entire collection of Psalms in the English Standard Version of the Bible, for meditative study. The grand themes of the blessings that Jesus offers in the Gospel are pictured in the semi-arid landscapes of outback Australia. The five books in this volume are arranged as a set in the Hebrew Bible (the Christian Old Testament) called The Scrolls, which are read at five of the annual Jewish festivals.
2021 The Book of Psalms illuminated is available here now. 2014 The Gospel according to John illuminated is available here now. 2011 The Scrolls illuminated is available here now.

Since the Psalms arrived, Covid and weather have played havoc with book events and shows of original artworks. However…

  • I have plenty of books still available!
  • If you would like me to come to your church group for a show-and-tell of paintings and books and an aspect of my journey with the Psalms, I’m happy to do so

Copies of individual pictures may be available on request: please email me: fiona@fionapfennigwerth.info. Reproduction of images may be made for such purposes as church services, with acknowledgement.