The disciples in woolly jumpers and the risen Christ with a watering can are just some of the unusual portrayals by the artist Eularia Clarke (1914-1970).
Trained under Gilbert Spencer – the brother of Sir Stanley – she started painting seriously after a pilgrimage to Lourdes in 1960 and produced 93 works over the next decade.
Clarke was a late convert to Catholicism: she was received into the Church in 1959, when she was in her forties.
She had studied Theology at the University of Oxford, but found the subject dry and uninspiring. She preferred the life classes she took in her spare time at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.
Clarke found new joy and interest in religon when she met Catholic musician John Stallard in 1956.
Her paintings depict Catholic worship, and gospel stories in contemporary settings.
She hoped they would communicate the vitality and immediacy of the Gospel in her time.
A selection of her paintings are due to go on display at the Oriental Club, in Marylebone, central London, on 14 October.
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