Healing Gift for sale
20 (w) x 16 (h) Oil on Canvas, 2020
You have conveyed so much through a simple painting. |
While at a mobile medical clinic in the Dominican Republic, I was called to go to an elderly woman at her home, because she was in too much pain, unable to walk. I arrived at her 10 x 10 foot single room, cinder block home. After asking her if she had a cane to assist her, she responded, "No, I gave it to someone who needed it more. God has been so good to me." My immediate thought was Mea Culpa.
I wanted to do something very simple (impressionism) with lots of color, because the amazing story it represents is of profound, unpretentious selflessness. This cane represents a truly selfless gift.
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This is not the woman in the story; however, she served as the inspiration, since she was another lovely spirit.
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Healing Hope SOLD
20 (w) x 16 (h) Oil on Canvas, 2020
Throughout the third world countries visited, we encountered homes made from scraps of wood, aluminum, stones, and cinder blocks. Several homes were only single rooms about 12' x 12'. This painting reflects the shanty villages where we setup mobile clinics.
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The people who came to the clinics lived in shanty homes, having hope and smiles while we cared for them. Although their homes were often dirt floors, their clothes were very clean from washing in the local streams or rainwater collected in a pila (a concrete basin sometimes with scrub board), as seen in the background. Many people dried their clothes on the home roof. Rose Rohloff |
The following photos are of the mission trips which inspired the painting.
(Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Peru and Honduras)
various homes & meeting buildings for school, clinic and church services
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Laundry Day
A pila for catching rain to bath & wash clothes, or
clothes are taken to the local river to wash. |
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