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St. Monica colored pencil on paper |
Artist Statement: Monica is the North African mother of St Augustine of Hippo, who credited her and her prayers for his conversion and salvation. The model is a dear departed member of my old parish, also named Monica, from the West Indies rather than North Africa, but an equally indomitable force to be reckoned with, a dynamo in service in the parish, and in her work as a midwife (in London in the 60s) and a nurse in Harlem in the 90s. Bio: Tobias Stanislas Haller BSG retired from full-time ministry after 16 years as Vicar at St James Fordham (Bronx NY). While in New York he served diocesan leadership as a trustee and on the Standing Committee, as Deputy to General Convention for over a decade, and a on the Anglican Communion Indaba Reference Group. He lives in Baltimore and is an associate at Church of the Advent, Federal Hill. He is a life-professed member of the Brotherhood of Saint Gregory, and a Commander of the Order of St John. An iconographer, visual artist (who has served as an ECVA curator in the past), musician, and author, his publications include Reasonable and Holy (Seabury 2009), Shared Governance (Church Publishing 2012), The Episcopal Handbook Revised (Church Publishing 2015), Preparing for a Wedding in the Episcopal Church (Church Publishing 2017), What About Sex? — A Little Book of Guidance (Church Publishing 2017), and his most recent, Re-Membering God: Human Hope and Divine Desire (Church Publishing 2019) which includes chapters on art, music, and architecture as human articulations of this quest. |
