Created in collobration with Elaine Guilding.
Two themes were ordered:
1. Jesus in today's community (Shirehampton) depicted on the left side, and 2. the great Bristol-based Methodists John Wesley and Francis Asbury. Wesley was the founder of Methodism, and his minister colleague Asbury sailed from Pill in 1771, crossed the Atlantic and founded the prolific Methodist church in the USA (depicted on the right side). The final design was the result of exhaustive discussion between Bill, Elaine and the vicar Jackie Quarmby.
In the scene on the right side Asbury is depicted sailing past Shirehampton and out of the estuary at Avonmouth under the M5 bridge into the sunset bound for the New World, while John Wesley preaches to locals. In the scene on the left side a contemporary-looking Jesus is depicted in jeans on a park bench on today's Shirehampton Green sharing food with homeless people.
Two themes were ordered:
1. Jesus in today's community (Shirehampton) depicted on the left side, and 2. the great Bristol-based Methodists John Wesley and Francis Asbury. Wesley was the founder of Methodism, and his minister colleague Asbury sailed from Pill in 1771, crossed the Atlantic and founded the prolific Methodist church in the USA (depicted on the right side). The final design was the result of exhaustive discussion between Bill, Elaine and the vicar Jackie Quarmby.
In the scene on the right side Asbury is depicted sailing past Shirehampton and out of the estuary at Avonmouth under the M5 bridge into the sunset bound for the New World, while John Wesley preaches to locals. In the scene on the left side a contemporary-looking Jesus is depicted in jeans on a park bench on today's Shirehampton Green sharing food with homeless people.