Parsons Presbyterian Manor
DECEMBER 2021
Hope for Christmas Parsons artist attracted to bold colors, patterns With the publication of the 2022 Art is Ageless® calendar, work by Parsons artist Jane Parish will be featured for the second year in a row. “Juicy Fruit,” a collection of nine individual paintings in a gridded frame, will be included in the special artist postcards that are included in the calendar. It won Best of Show in the amateur category in the 2021 Art is Ageless competition held earlier this year at Parsons Presbyterian Manor. At age 68, Jane has only been eligible to enter for three years. She has already won multiple blue ribbons for the cheerful and detailed drawings and paintings she has only been making for the past few years.
Editor’s note: In a nod to our roots in the Presbyterian Church, Greg Spring, chaplain at Wichita Presbyterian Manor, brings our devotion this month.
People around the world celebrate Christmas with family and friends, parties and gifts, decorations and songs. All of these things are wonderful. However, have we overlooked the baby? We find that the story of Christmas is all about a baby. We discover that the Shepherds in the fields “…hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger.” Luke 2:16 The Magi traveled a great distance with significant gifts because of a baby. Even King Herod, though motivated by jealousy, appeared concerned about the baby. He told the wise men “…Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me…” Matthew 2:8
“When I retired, I needed something to do,” Jane said. She hadn’t made a painting since she was in seventh grade, but her mother was a gifted artist who gave away her paintings to friends and family, as Jane has done with much of her own work. Jane was in her 20s during the 1970s, and her affection for Juicy Fruit dramatic colors and prints recalls that era. She works largely in acrylics and colored pencil, media that allow her to make super-saturated works. These include past Art is Ageless winners “Love Waits,” which depicts a stylish woman sitting in a ’50s-style diner against a dramatic black-and-
Jane Parish – continued on page 3
Why would a baby stir such evil actions in Herod? What moved the angels in heaven to rejoice over the birth of a baby? How could a baby bring hope to a sinful world? The emphasis is not only about who the baby would grow-up to be thirty years later. The significant point
Hope – continued on page 4
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