A contemporary portrayal of Mother Mary and the infant Jesus. The Holy Family should have a more middle eastern appearance in the art, and I tried to capture this in the painting. Why wouldn't the holy Mother be feeling stress as well as intense love and devotion to her child? The nativity would have been more than just haloes and the bright star. It would have been a young teenaged mother, in a plain filthy lodging, hoping that the message given about her child was indeed reality. Much faith was always necessary from the onset until now.
8x10 hand painted acrylic on stretched canvas.
Mother Mary and Jesus : Away in a Manger
While most nativity scene portrayals are romanticized, the artist has instead depicted a more unsure, worried, but loving mother Mary in the manger with the infant Jesus. She is alone, waiting for Joseph to return.