David A. Campton

Yesterday it was a piece inspired by Psalms attributed to King David. Today's piece is prompted by supposed words of Saint David, with a passing nod to Wendell Berry. #poetry virtualmethodist.blogspot.com/2026/09/do-s...

A piece shaped by some of the Psalms attributed to David, the shepherd/king and some unhelpful rumination... #poetry virtualmethodist.blogspot.com/2026/09/two-...

It's been a while since I've been on here and I'm currently looking out on a different vista in Pembrokeshire on holiday, but here's a short piece prompted by the view from out front window in our new manse... #poetry virtualmethodist.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...

Some musings in the light of recent electoral results about democracy and the Kingdom that Jesus taught us to pray for... virtualmethodist.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-...

#EasterArt 7: 'The Incredulity of Saint Thomas' an oil painting on canvas by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (c.1601-2) in the collection of he Picture Gallery in the Sanssouci Park, Potsdam, Germany. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

#EasterArt 6: 'Risen Jesus' a painting using recycled house emulsion by Mollie Walker Freeman (c.2011-13) on repurposefulpainter.wordpress.com. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

Nearly there... the Last of the Lasts at Donegall Road Methodist Church on Sunday virtualmethodist.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

#EasterArt 5: 'Leaping Gazelle, 1936' a bronze sculpture by Marshall M. Fredericks (1988) in the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, Saginaw Valley State University, Auburn, Michigan, USA. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

#EasterArt 4: 'Joshua passing the River Jordan with the Ark of the Covenant' (1800) an oil painting on a panel by Benjamin West in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

#EasterArt 3: 'The Destruction of Pharaoh’s Host (1836) a watercolor with pencil and gum arabic by John Martin in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

I was going to have a day off from the computer today but this was eating away at me... virtualmethodist.blogspot.com/2026/04/do-w... #poem

#EasterArt 2: 'Moses dividing the waters of the Red Sea' a watercolour by John Martin (early 19th century) in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

#EasterArt 1: 'Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen (Noli me Tangere)' an oil painting on canvas by Graham Vivian Sutherland (1961) in the Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, England. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

I wrote this last year but it seems even more appropriate as I stagger my way towards the end of my own incomplete journey with BCM NI this year... virtualmethodist.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-... #poem #holyweek #holyaturday

#LentArt 44: 'The Entombment of Christ' an oil painting on oak panel by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (c.1624) in the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

The shadow of the cross looms large this Good Friday. virtualmethodist.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-re...

#LentArt 43: 'Jésus devant Pilate. Deuxième entretien' gouache over graphite on gray wove paper by James Tissot (between 1886 and 1894) in the Brooklyn Museum, NY, USA. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

#LentArt 42: 'The Washing of the Feet' an acrylic on canvas by Ghislaine Howard (2004) from the Methodist Modern Art Collection. Image Copyright © Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

Another blast from the past - my reworking of a much older piece giving Judas Iscariot's perspective on the earlier anointing in Bethany. virtualmethodist.blogspot.com/2008/03/conf...

#LentArt 41: 'The Last Supper' a minIature by an unknown German artist in Regensburg, Bavaria (c.1400-10) for the "World Chronicle" by Rudolf von Ems in The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

Something of what I shared this morning BCM NI HQ... virtualmethodist.blogspot.com/2026/03/bene...

#LentArt 40: 'Sower with Setting Sun' an oil painting on canvas by Vincent van Gogh (1888) in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

This was the second of the three monoligues I wrote for EBM/Skainos all those years ago. I've only used it once since then but have reblogged it many times since including this piece last year. virtualmethodist.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-...

#LentArt 39: 'Mary Magdalen' a wood engraving on paper by Eric Gill (1926) in Tate Britain, London, England. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

An alternative perspective on the events of Palm Sunday. virtualmethodist.blogspot.com/2026/03/palm...

#LentArt 38: 'Heads of a Donkey and Foal' a watercolour on paper by Elizabeth Eleanor Milner (late 19th/early 20th century) in The Bushey Museum and Art Gallery, Hertfordshire, England. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

#LentArt 36: 'Femme assise (Melancholy Woman)' an oil painting on canvas by Pablo Picasso (1902-3) in the The Detroit Museum of Art, Michigan, UK. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

Another morning with my mind starting at 100mph... Do we really hear what we are singing? And how do we want God to answer? virtualmethodist.blogspot.com/2026/03/fire... #poem

#LentArt 35: 'La Douleur (Sorrow)' an oil painting on canvas by Paul Cézanne (1868-1869) in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

#LentArt 34: 'Ashurnasirpal II besieging a city' a gypsum wall panel relief from the palace of Nimrud, Iraq (865BC-860BC) in the British Museum, London, UK. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

#LentArt 33: 'Elisha Raising the Son of the Shunamite' an oil painting on canvas by Frederic Leighton (1881) in the Leighton House, London, UK. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

#LentArt 32: 'My Second Sermon' an oil painting on canvas by John Everett Millais (1864) in the Guildhall Art Gallery, London, UK. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

#LentArt 31: 'Ezekiel 37 (Valley of Dry Bones): And the bones came together' an Etching on paper by Margaret Adams Parker (2013) in the Georgetown University Library, Washington, DC, US. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

#LentArt 30: 'The Cornell Farm' an oil painting on canvas by Edward Hicks. (1848) in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, US. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10... Sometimes that doesn't go far enough... virtualmethodist.blogspot.com/2026/03/coun... #poem

#LentArt 29: 'The Angel with the Broken Wing' stained glass from Bristol Cathedral. (C.1220-1280) in The Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

#LentArt 28: 'Ezekiel eating the scroll' an illuminated inital in a Latin Bible (12th century) from Gallica, the digital collection of the French National Library (BnF). (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

#LentArt 27: 'Jesus healing the Two Blind Men at Jericho' a mosaic (c.1180) in the in Cathedral of Monreale, Palermo, Sicily, Italy. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

A video I recorded for St. Patrick's day back in lockdown days... virtualmethodist.blogspot.com/2021/03/lent...

#LentArt 26: 'Dawn' an oil painting on canvas by Thomas Edwin Mostyn (c 1919) in the Torre Abbey Museum, Torquay, Devon, UK. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

#LentArt 25: 'The Conversion of Saul' a pen drawing and watercolor wash on woven paper by William Blake (c.1800-5) in The Huntington Art Gallery, San Marino, CA, USA. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

#LentArt 24: 'The Blind Man' a painting by Gustave Van de Woestyne (1910) in the Royal Museum for Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

The season I am in... A sequence of haiku that captures a sense of it... virtualmethodist.blogspot.com/2026/03/last... #poems

#LentArt 23: 'Saint John the Baptist' a oil painting on a walnut panel by Leonardo da Vinci (c.1513-16) in the Louvre, Paris, France. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

#LentArt 22: 'Torn Cloth' oil on masonite by Philip Clarkson Elliott (1952) in the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, NY, USA. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

#LentArt 21: 'Sheep and Shepherd in a Landscape' an oil painting on canvas by Constant Troyon (c.1854) in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)

A piece I shared at Fitzroy Presbyterian on Sunday night. virtualmethodist.blogspot.com/2026/03/via-... #poem

#LentArt 20: 'Water of Life' a bronze sculpture by Stephen Broadbent (1994) cast by Castle Fine Arts Foundry in Chester Cathedral cloister, Cheshire, UK. (Posts based on the Daily Revised Common Lectionary for Year A from Vanderbilt University)