Poems - Art

Kabare Carving: Watching the Cross

Date added: 30/01/2026 >>

Poem written on 4 Dec 2025 at St Beuno’s Jesuit Centre, Wales, expounding the right mahogany door relief, based on John 19:17-27, at the entrance porch to the library of St Andrew’s College, Kabare, Kenya, carved by Benson Ndaka in 1991. 

 

Kabare Carving: Apostle of Apostles

Date added: 30/01/2026 >>

Poem, written on 5 Dec 2025 at St Beuno's Jesuit Centre, Wales, expounding the left mahogany door relief, based on John 20:11-18, at the entrance porch of the library of St Andrew’s College, Kabare, Kenya, carved by Benson Ndaka in 1991.

 

Kabare Carving: Lavish Law

Date added: 10/11/2024 >>

Poem, written 22 Oct 2024, at Launde Abbey, Leicestershire, expounding the left mahogany door relief, based on Psalm 19, of the library at St Andrew’s College, Kabare, Kenya, carved by Benson Ndaka in 1991.

 

Kabare Carving: Sower of the Word

Date added: 26/11/2024 >>

Poem written at Launde Abbey, Leicestershire, 26 Nov 2024 and revised 27 Jan 2026, expounding the Parable of the Sower (Mark 4.3-20) and Benson Ndaka's mahogany carving of that passage on the library door (the Word of the Lord in the New Testament) of St Andrew's College, Kabare, Kenya.

 

Kabare Carving: Feeding the Five Thousand

Date added: 30/01/2026 >>

Poem, written on 23 Dec 2025 in Cambridge, expounding the left mahogany door relief, based on Mark 6:30-44, at the entrance to the chapel of St Andrew’s College, Kabare, Kenya, carved by Benson Ndaka in 1991.

 

Kabare Carving: Heavenly Banquet

Date added: 30/01/2026 >>

Poem, written 2 Dec 2025, at St Beuno’s Jesuit Centre, Wales, expounding the right mahogany door relief, based on Matthew 8:17, at the entrance to the chapel of St Andrew’s College, Kabare, Kenya, carved by Benson Ndaka in 1991.

 

Kabare Carving: Facing the Mountain

Date added: 30/01/2026 >>

Poem, written on 3 Dec 2025 at St Beuno’s Jesuit Centre, Wales, expounding the mahogany relief, on the porch staircase leading to the chapel of St Andrew’s College, Kabare, Kenya, carved by Benson Ndaka in 1991.

 

Quilt

Date added: 18/12/2025 >>

Poem written on 30 Nov 2025 at St Beuno’s Jesuit Centre, Wales.

 

Mosaic Sphere

Date added: 30/01/2026 >>

Poem written on 29 Nov 2025 at St Beuno’s Jesuit Centre, Wales.

 

Tender Attention

Date added: 29/05/2020 >>

Art

Tender Attention

 

Women in the Bible: Sarah

Date added: 29/05/2020 >>

Art - Women in the Bible

Sarah

 

Women in the Bible: Miriam

Date added: 29/05/2020 >>

Art - Women in the Bible

Miriam

 

Women in the Bible: Ruth

Date added: 29/05/2020 >>

Art - Women in the Bible

Ruth

 

Women in the Bible: Esther

Date added: 29/05/2020 >>

Art - Women in the Bible

Esther

 

Women in the Bible: Magdalene

Date added: 29/05/2020 >>

Art - Women in the Bible

Magdalene

 

Women in the Bible: Lydia

Date added: 29/05/2020 >>

Art - Women in the Bible

Lydia

 

Women in the Bible: Priscilla

Date added: 29/05/2020 >>

Art - Women in the Bible

Priscilla