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Oil and tempera on stretched canvas, 142 × 110cm
In Psalm 1, Janet Elizabeth Thomas stages the body at the moment of unmooring. Suspended between earth and an enveloping blue expanse, the figure tilts backward in a gesture that is neither fully fall nor fully surrender. The raised arms suggest a fragile negotiation—between resistance and appeal, between the instinct to protect and the impulse to reach beyond oneself.
Rendered in oil and tempera, the surface carries both weight and luminosity, allowing the body to emerge and dissolve simultaneously. Here, Thomas introduces the thematic core of the Psalms series: the exposed human form as a site of spiritual encounter, where falling becomes a form of address, and uncertainty its own kind of prayer.
Oil and tempera on stretched canvas, 142 × 110cm
In Psalm 1, Janet Elizabeth Thomas stages the body at the moment of unmooring. Suspended between earth and an enveloping blue expanse, the figure tilts backward in a gesture that is neither fully fall nor fully surrender. The raised arms suggest a fragile negotiation—between resistance and appeal, between the instinct to protect and the impulse to reach beyond oneself.
Rendered in oil and tempera, the surface carries both weight and luminosity, allowing the body to emerge and dissolve simultaneously. Here, Thomas introduces the thematic core of the Psalms series: the exposed human form as a site of spiritual encounter, where falling becomes a form of address, and uncertainty its own kind of prayer.