Rebecca Hind: Scintilla: the glittering speck
Title: Scintilla: the glittering speck
Artist: Rebecca Hind (1957–2017, British)
Location: Christ Church Spitalfields (C of E)
Date: 2010
Scintilla was nominated for Ecclesiart by Brian Catling, who writes: ‘Scintilla is a visual orchestration of life, made to echo inside the tall paleness of Christ Church Spitalfields. An evocation of landscape and elements that wants to summon the potent majesty of nature’s shifting energy to the core of Hawksmoor’s poised linear order. Hind’s painted installation conducts the spectator through the silent magnitude of celestial orbit to brooding clouds that nudge between storm and revelation, to the hand-powered fires of a blacksmith’s roaring forge. In these paintings the sparks that fly upwards do so positively, scratching the swirling darkness into signs of language, seeds of hope.’
Brian Catling (1948–2022) was an artist and Professor of Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford.
Rebecca Hind (1957–2017, British) was an artist working predominantly in paint. Her large-scale watercolours push the technical boundaries of the medium in unexpected ways, offering a visual and contemplative intensity. Scintilla follows a series of lunar paintings made for a solo exhibition at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, in 2007. In addition to exhibiting, Hind wrote three books, the most recent of which, Sacred Journeys, was published during 2009. Hind was a member of Contemporary Art in Dorchester Abbey, and a Visiting Tutor at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art and at Arts in Provence.
Further information
Medium: Watercolour
Size: Life (215 x 85cm), Death (300 x 150cm), Resurrection (215 x 85cm)
Permanent display
See Rebecca Hind’s Scintilla on the Ecclesiart map here.
Nominated by: Brian Catling
Other artworks in churches by Rebecca Hind: Bright Rising, 2013, Lady Chapel in Dorchester Abbey