Quartz
Artists can help us stretch our minds. This exersize can take effort. Making the effort has rewards though. Just as a runner trains for a race, we can train our minds to be flexible and resiliant. There is Truth in the solidness of stone, but a skilled artist can make it look like a pillow. […]
Without relying on artificial light and clocks, does the new day start at sunset or sunrise? The Banners we have been working on will be unveiled at an Easter Vigil this Friday. It will be held at 8.30 pm on the Saturday before Easter Sunday in St Johns. There is also a Dumfries Christian Network […]
Easter is a time of contrasts. We will be exploring themes of stone and vegetation, structure and chaos, overflowing of life and containers that hold things together. Help make a banner after the 11 O’clock service on Palm Sunday (13th of April) in St Johns. We will also be working on it at the contemporary […]
Monday the 14th of April 10.30 to 12.30 Stories have been plucked from the wind and passed down to us from ancient days, with the aid of goose feathers. The quills of scribes fluttered over a thousand years ago to record tales that were much older. Come and experience storyteller Simon Lidwell bringing a selection […]
Yesterday evening at the Contemporary Service in St Johns we reflected on the theme “God is good”. We were encouraged to think about where and what we recognise as good. As part of our creative response we spent some time reflecting on where we see good things. We used a drawing of a tree to […]
Here is a gallery of images that will perhaps give an insight into Quartz activity in 2025. Supporting worship and creative responses at the St Johns contemporary service, and January Forest church.
A quick recap of four sessions at St Michaels in Dumfries in Jan 2025. These four sessions were the fruit of Fiona opening St Michaels sanctuary are for people to draw. Three of us from Quartz met up and sketched the window and then chatted about it. Following that Simon and Fiona met up and […]
Colouring Light In this, the last of four sessions, we will use stained glass to think about expressing the experience of #SensingSpirituality. We will meet at 1pm in St Michaels church Hall. Stained glass shapes the way we experience light. As a boundary between the source and viewer it is ambiguous. Does the stain detract […]
A quick insight into what was a very relaxing afternoon. This was Faith and Art III
Weaving Thoughts We will meet at 1pm in St Michaels church Hall on Wednesday the 22nd. This week we will move from “Drawing Meaning” using calligraphy onto exploring weaving thoughts and words together. In the second session there was the opportunity to try out some techniques of calligraphy. We also took time to reflect on […]