The Month Of May Through Artist Enid Chadwick's Eyes
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Enid Mary Chadwick (26 October 1902 – 24 October 1987) was a English artist known for religious art and children's religious books.
The daughter of an Anglican minister, Chadwick attended an Anglican convent school in Oxford run by the sisters of the Society of the Holy and Undivided Trinity. She lived in Walsingham for more than fifty years.
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Photo Gallery: The High Altar Reredos
Chadwick trained at the Brighton School of Art (founded 1859) prior to going to Walsingham in 1934. Chadwick contributed extensively to the Anglican Shrine's artwork, including murals, statues, and other decorative elements.
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The Reverend Charles Smith, a later Administrator of the Shrine, who gave the address at the funeral for Chadwick (28 October 1987), described her style as
“direct, and full of devotion. . . The mysteries of the faith, the lives and legends of the saints, are set before us in a way all can understand. The simple, as in the Middle Ages she loved, learn directly from her paintings, and many who would be regarded as sophisticated in these matters, find that their unpretentious charm speaks to them as the children of God.
“Behind all this and supporting it, was a life of deep and dedicated prayer . . . a matter of remaining quietly in the presence of God.” Appropriately, on her tombstone are found the words: “Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house.”
My Book of the Church's Year
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