A friend is heading to the Ashmolean for the Young Rembrandt exhibition today – which prompted me to take down one of Roger Housden’s inspired works from my shelves. The closing paragraph of his Lesson Six – Embrace The Inevitable leaps off the page:
“Rembrandt has, indeed, prevailed through the centuries. His example of loving this world despite all the troubles it brings; of standing his ground in the face of the opinions of others; of faith, both in his personal experience of God and in the second sight of imagination; of his profound acceptance of the mysterious ways of life itself – all this is as prophetic in our time as it was in his own. When we see ourselves in Rembrandt’s mirror – our human vulnerabilities, our persistent spirit – I believe that we can be inspired to be more freely who we are; to be what we most want and value. By virtue of his painterly genius, everything he was lives on today in the hearts and minds of those who have caught his eye gazing down at them from some grey museum wall.”
How Rembrandt Reveals Your Beautiful Imperfect Self: Roger Housden, Harmony Books, New York, p229
wind in my wheels 🌱 
Such an exquisite artist! I envy your friend’s trip to the exhibition. I’m sure it will be fabulous…
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Yes, Lori. None other quite paints light like R does – like an inner aura that glows outward from within; especially here (doubtless there are higher quality photos to be found!) https://www.wikiart.org/en/rembrandt/simeon-with-the-christ-child-in-the-temple 🙂x
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His skills as a draftsman have always taken my breath away, too. There are some artists whose work simply brings me to tears. He is one such….💕
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… me too. And Roger Housden. I think R probably set out to move people deeply – Reality writ (or painted!) large …
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