Art, Soul & Destiny with Jill Steenhuis

We are excited to announce that Peachtree Road United Methodist Church will featureworld renowned ARTIST and Buckhead native, Jill Steenhuis, as their special guest during the Midweek Worship service on April 28.

Jill will be featured as she paints during the worship service (online and in the Sanctuary), and afterwards attendees will have the chance to hear how her work is deeply connected to her faith.

Jill Steenhuis will share her artistic talents and the story of her faith journey with us and audience members from around the world.

Wednesday, April 28th, 12:00 Noon

Jill Steenhuis, an Atlanta native who has spent the last thirty years in Aix in Provence, is a recognized artist and authority on Impressionist oil painting. For more than ten years, she was Artist in Residence at Chateau Noir, Cezanne's residence while living in the South of France. Being a  noted expert on Cezanne and Van Gogh, Jill will speak on “Art, Soul & Destiny" and will present a live painting demonstration. To learn more about Jill visit her website at https://www.artinprovence.com/

“I wait, and I wait, and I wait. And then it comes. The meaning, the salt of my life – the savory. I don’t quite know what it is, except that it has to do with my raison d’être. Something in this non-physical world is giving the essence to deal with the physical world. I am searching for the meaning that needs to come – an understanding of the universe, a lucidity of eternity, the gift to be silent.

We receive in silence, but then we need the words to take what we received to others : epiphany, eternity, infinity, faith, hope, love – catching the “big fish”.

For me, it’s the brushstrokes that lead me closer to the greater mysteries of compassion, healing and hope and are my language for communicating. 

“I paint “en plein air devant le motif” (outdoor painting on the site) in order to listen to nature and use my eyes to see, engaging my senses to perceive the parallel between nature and eternity.”