SEEING SALVATION NOW
A series of paintings and drawings were selected for an exhibition at the North Light Gallery in Huddersfield at the end of 2005.  Gallery Director Mark Brooke's idea was to bring the 'Seeing Salvation' show at the National Gallery in 2000 up to date by finding "new visual metaphors and parables" for faith.  Malcolm Doney wrote in the Church Times: "This is a show mostly of paintings...The result is a powerful exhibition in the form of an engaging visual conversation among people who share a faith, each of whom exhibits a very individual perspective on what this means...It is in narrative that most of the featured artists see salvation worked out...In this respect, it is worth noting that the spirit of Stanley Spencer...is still alive and kicking...Kate Wilson envisions the Israelite's pillar of fire in South London...the artists involved do not fit into any mainstream, and that in itself is something of a British tradition"

Excerpt from a review of 'Seeing Salvation Now' at the North Light Gallery, on Evangelicals Now website - December 2004

"Two paintings by Kate Wilson deserve pondering: 'Afterlife' and 'Abundant Life'. They could be described as a parable in paint of the interior of a house from the same perspective. One is an empty shell, swept and clean with no occupants, maybe representing the body without the living soul. 'Abundant Life' shows the same interior but now furnished and occupied by children and adults - maybe indicating the abundant life which Christ brings. The message is maybe open to interpretation but the composition and rendering are impressive."
Jack Rawnsley ARIBA


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