“Christmas in Heaven” is a large abstract painting on a 36”x48” stretched canvas.
This piece is currently displayed in the entryway of our home, and always will be because it is such a deep part of us. It was inspired by a dream I had (see below) of my daughter, Audrey Jane, on the actual day she passed away, Christmas Eve of 2016. The gold in the upper left quadrant alludes to the throne room in Heaven, and the red streak resembles everyone gathered at the foot of the throne, awaiting the great Christmas Story to be told.
A detailed description of the dream that inspired this piece is below:
She was there.
Squatting down like all toddlers do. She had on a fresh white dress with white buttons all the way down her back. Her tiny brown curls rested on the back of her neck and the back of her heels stuck out underneath her dress as it billowed out over her squatting little body. That’s all I could see of her, her tiny little backside, because she was facing the throne room.
She was ok. She was whole. She was home. Something I needed to see after her nine and a half hours of deep suffering and pain she lived here on earth; things every mother longs to know when their child is away. Although this was different.
Christmas angels were all around her, gathering little ones just like her so tenderly around the foot of the throne to hear the Christmas Story proclaimed that night. All I could hear was the sound of their wings hustling and bustling about getting everything and everyone ready for the biggest celebration of the year. Both in Heaven and on Earth, Angels were preparing.
The colors. There were some we would recognize and some we have never seen before. But they were there. Filling the scene with warmth, joy and love. The deepest love. There was this one color, that the only way I can describe it is it's “the deepest understanding of each human soul I’ve ever created” color.
