François Fénelon

Elena Bergman v Bergman

This is how every home in Sweden looked from the prehistoric Nordic Bronze Age until 1943 when IKEA was invented

Scandinavian maximalism

Scenes from the microcosmic sublime

Study of the Swedish King

A heart in silence is a melody for the heart of God. The lamp is consumed noiselessly before the tabernacle, and incense ascends in silence to the throne of God: such is the sound of the silence of love.

Cardinal Sarah

Ever since man rejected the Light that was meant to show him the way, everything has become for us an obstacle and danger; we live in the shadow of death. Instead of pointing to the Creator and leading us to Him, things show only themselves, with the result that we stop at them.…

Here's a link to my full interview with Jacob Rees-Mogg for GB News
You can probably tell we had a great time 😁
youtu.be/fiI7OaUl6rw?si…

I love semi-ironically remarking on Nordic Catholic revival and then turning my head in Stockholm cafés

So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp.

Rilke

Encouraged by the even more beautiful than expected glossy first edition of England’s new traditional Catholic magazine corner-cabinet.com/about

“is that a bear with a sword”
“welcome to Finnish Christianity”

After a long break for Holy week and Easter, it's nice to be back in the studio!

Today I am in the midst of developing a painting of Our Lady of Champion.

Thomas of Jesus (1582)

To understand the art of a society is to understand the vital activity of that society in its most intimate and creative moments.

-Dawson

Elena Beautiful. Oldest parish indeed, but their current church is founded 50 years after my home church here in Gothenburg. Which I would argue is the most beautiful Catholic church in Sweden. Kristus Konungens Kyrka (Church of Christ the king).

There have been an extraordinary…

Surreal chance upon an overflowing Ge’ez liturgy in Sweden’s oldest Catholic parish