21 August 2014, The Tablet

Bible in paint


 
He was commissioned to paint a portrait of Scottish martyr St John Ogilvie for the refurbished St Andrew’s Cathedral, Glasgow. But the celebrated artist Peter Howson destroyed his first attempt, completed in 2011, and started again from scratch. He has now revealed that he has been commissioned to create 36 biblical paintings by a Scottish Christian lawyer Alan Turner. Howson has also recently recovered from a long bout of depression.“I see myself as a Christian but I still want to
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