St. Peter’s Sanctuary (NC) designed by John Collier
I was asked to create a painting of the repentance of St. Peter from the Gospel of John, two bas-reliefs and a tabernacle for St. Peter's Catholic Parish in Charlotte, North Carolina. The painting is about fifteen feet square, is housed in a frame made of wood and gold leaf. My daughter Kimberly spent over a year applying the many layers of size and gold leaf that were required to finish my design. The tabernacle below it has a granite base and is covered with jade and lapis lazuli, with a bas-relief door in bronze. I sculpted this bas-relief. The two bas-reliefs on the wall on either side of the painting depict scenes relating to this parish, and they are made from fiberglass-reinforced Hydrostone. When I started, the entire front wall of the church was white. I was asked to design everything except the platform furniture. I was very fortunate to be able to work with Gelbach Design in Charlotte which engineered and fabricated the design of the reredos (forming the background).
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