The Painted Prayerbook

After months of gestation, I am delighted to share the news that I’ve launched a new website today. Jan Richardson Images enables churches and other communities to download high-resolution files of my artwork for use in worship, education, and other settings. I am thrilled about the opportunity to share mutual creative support with congregations and other organizations in this way.

The images on this new site are available for $15 per image (for one-time use), or, with an annual subscription, you can have unlimited access to the images for a year (within the Guidelines for Use).

By way of thanks for your support of The Painted Prayerbook, I want to let you know that for a limited time, I’m offering a special sneak preview price for an annual subscription. Through May 31, you can subscribe to Jan Richardson Images for $100. (After May 31, an annual subscription will be $165.)

I want to make my work available to a variety of congregations and other groups, regardless of size, so if you’re connected with an organization that would like a subscription but would have difficulty with the discounted price, please drop me a line at jan(AT)janrichardsonimages(DOT)com, and I’ll be happy to work with you.

I would be pleased and grateful for you to share this news with anyone who might be able to make use of this new website and the sneak preview rate.

On another note, I want to let you know that I’ll be taking a wee bit of a break from offering my weekly lectionary art and reflections. I am leaning hard on a deadline to finish a new book this summer (due to be published in Fall 2010), and after months of trying to do both the book and the blog (and the new website and…) at the same time, I’ve realized that if I have any hope of making the deadline (and keeping body and soul in one piece), I need a blog sabbatical. (A blogabattical?)

Please don’t go far! I do plan to continue to post here while I work on the book—just not the weekly lectionary-art-and-writing that I love to do but that consumes so much energy. As I work to complete the book, it would be a great gift to continue to have your presence here, which provides so much sustenance on my path. And I would be deeply grateful for your prayers along the way. I look forward to returning to our regularly scheduled programming by late summer/early fall.

In the meantime, I welcome you to have a browse around Jan Richardson Images. Though I won’t be creating new lectionary art for a while, the cool thing about art, especially abstract art, is that it invites a multiplicity of interpretations. My hope is that in the months to come, you’ll find images on this new website that will grace your worship or other settings, even if the images weren’t designed for the specific scripture or theme that you’re pondering.

I also invite you to stay in touch by signing up for my e-newsletter, if you haven’t already. I send it out every month or two, usually in connection with the liturgical year. Click e-newsletter signup to receive this. And I’d be delighted for you to visit my other website at janrichardson.com, where I always have books, art prints, and greeting cards available, along with other info about my ministry through The Wellspring Studio, LLC.

Thanks so much for your support of The Painted Prayerbook and of me. I wish you many blessings in these Easter days!

*P.S. If you’re looking for a reflection on the gospel lection for this Sunday, I invite you to visit Easter 4: In Which We Do Some Sheep Wrestling. Written as a reflection on John 10.1-10 (last year’s Easter 4), it explores the sheep-and-shepherd imagery that continues into this Sunday’s gospel lection, John 10.11-18.

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