131 Untitled (Emilie Buck Lewis)
The seeds of this project started in 2015, when I was asked to paint a painting of Heavenly Mother for a friend. (Members of my faith cherish the doctrine that we are literal spirit children of God, children of both Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother.) The outcome of that request was my painting titled “Eve and her Mother.” (Scroll back through my feed to see that one.) Anyway, through painting that and thinking about how to portray a divine someone without knowing what she looks like, and also thinking about how all of her daughters and sons have inherited some of her characteristics, I thought I should just paint several portraits of several different women as Heavenly Mother. I wanted any woman (or man) to be able to see herself in Heavenly Mother, because there is a little bit of her in all of us. And ultimately it doesn’t really matter what she looks like—it just matters that we know she is our Mother and she loves us. I hope through this series you can feel a tiny bit of her love for you.
