Exhibiting Soon

Artist Daniel Chuter, exhibiting some of his paintings here.

Originals and small prints, will be for sale.

P.E.O.P.L.E. Upper Rooms, 

Midsomer Norton, Somerset.

Prophetic Sounds Seminar

Moya Boardman will hosting this exciting seminar. Please see the Forerunners UK's Homepage for the leaflet download link.

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We Must Let God Love Us Like He Has Always Wanted To.

Even as believers we try so very hard to change. After a tragic event and in a time of trial we become more desperate to get His attention. We live in a time where we LONG FOR HIS PRESENCE in every day and every situation.

After ww2, new artists emerged, as the attention moved to USA. The war had devastated so much and it was time to start again.  Does this familiar. The thinking behind painting at this time had not actually changed much. Jackson pollock Mark Rothko emerged as really just two sides of the same coin.But there art appeared to be so different. Pollock believed in the thinking of CARL JUNG who believed more in the occult side of dream interpretation. Rothko was influenced by Nietzsche who claimed that GOD WAS DEAD.

I use all these examples for us to look at the parallels to our own lives and to look at what goes on around us.

So, by 1950, something new was stirring in terms of art style, although it was not new in terms of influence.

We too when faced by devastating circumstances can want to change. We must admit that we are need of A SAVIOUR because we are unable to really change. The heart needs to change. WE MUST BE BORN AGAIN.

God has longed to show us the fulfil extent of His love for us, yet He has had to stand back and let us suffer. This seems so unfair but let us be honest about how many times we have chosen our own way and chosen to readjust our lives to make them seem better.

Creative people can be very sensitive but also tend to be very inward looking. LETS GET HEALED.

Daniel Chuter

What are you LED BY?

We are all motivated and guided through life by something. People want to believe that they are being different and unique but at the end of the day we are all subject to our human nature. Our human nature can tend to be SELFISH. This is why we need a Saviour. To SAVE US FROM OURSELVES.

In the years after the WW2, to look at our study on art and creativity and society this century, many were still influenced by a desire to study the nature of the individual and his expression of particular emotions. “Automatism’ was a style that influenced many painters, particularly Jackson Pollock. This was to let go of the will and be led, often by wrong influences, to produce random form and pattern.  This is significant in our study of the context of society at the time. To use this as an example it brings to mind a larger subject of interest.

To discover what people are led by one can look at the fruit it produces. In art of this time it led to problems within the lives of these painters and society. Problems such as a general despair and fear.

The fruit of the flesh is listed in Galatians. It might be useful to look at the FRUIT that your life is displaying at the moment. Jesus was led by the Spirit to be tempted to prove that He wanted nothing but His Fathers will.
THE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT IS SELFLESS... THE FLESH IS SELFISH. We have been conditioned to believe that if we look deeply inward we will discover answers to our condition... the only ANSWER IS A NEW HEART.

Now is not the time to got caught up in looking inward. The healing that we need is in being SELFLESS. Being selfless is only possible through the Spirit of God.

TEST THE SPIRITS AT THE MOMENT; but most importantly LOOK AT THE FRUIT.

Currently Exhibiting

Daniel Chuter & Thomas Oldham recently exhibited some of their paintings at a new arts initiative in Midsomer Norton, Somerset. Arranged by 'Office Promotions', it aims to be a regular venue for the public to see the talent of regional artists.

Daniel has also submitted some of his work for the "Old Bakery Artist" Collective's art trail around the area.

Let Us Move On

It is interesting studying the relationship of art and society over history because there are things that we can apply in our approach to today. After ww2 society was quite inward looking.  Painting was still dominated by the work of the EXPRESSIONISTS such as Kandinsky, Van Gogh and Edvard Munch.  These focused on the study of the individuals emotion and freedom to express. This is fine but it not only became self indulgent but was rooted and many ideas which were not God's values. Here is an interesting point that while we are in a state of inner pain if we are not seeking healing from the right place then we are open to lots of wrong approaches. I think this is true of today. We, as christians, sometimes need to face the REAL ROOTS of why we are not really healed and focus more on our need for a God of comfort and SELF.

The bible talks, in Hebrews, of having become DULL OF HEARING. We must be careful not to become cynical. Sometimes we wander from meeting to meeting in search of healing and inwardly become HARDENED. We might think that we have heard the same thing over and over and there is no more. This is a terrible lie. We must MOVE ON.

In the days of Jeremiah the people claimed to be ok and were oblivious to their real state. God seemed to be saying... they were not healed. Society under the modernists was outwardly proud of new technology and science but there was an inner despair. Two world wars and a bigger threat in the COLD WAR, had proved that there was NO PEACE.

IF GOD IS SAYING MOVE ON THERE IS A REASON AND IT IS FOR OUR OWN GOOD AND SAFETY.

Daniel Chuter

Broken Glass... Not Stained Anymore

"Degenerate" Art

In 1937 in Munich the nazi party exhibited modernist work in a way that showed their distaste of it.  They were more interested in the classical work of the Romans and Greeks. Eventually all modernist works were banned.

Germany had become the centre for the avant garde, by the 30,s, and this was really its peak, but an underlying threat loomed in Europe.

It is interesting that this work was seen as a threat. The nazi party claimed that much of the work was done by jews. In fact Shoenberg and Mahler, classical musicians at the time and many expressionist painters were jews or BOLSHEVIKS, as the nazi’s liked to describe them. It was a fear of anything different but also a more sinister hatred.

So in this way things avant garde were rejected. They were a threat. Once again you might see the enemy’s attempt to stamp out anything new and pioneered but essentially good and constructive.

This puts one in mind of the story of God’s people coming out of Egypt. Throughout history we can see the continual attempts to get rid of God’s chose. Pharaoh’s army continued to pursue Israel even when they came out of captivity. But GOD MAKES A WAY WHERE THERE IS NO WAY.

God continues to make a way. The whole area of creativity is a very powerful one. We can express God’s character through this. The human brain seems to respond more to the visual. REJECTED people can feel so broken that they are numb to whole areas of their lives. God wants to speak to us and He will use whatever means is available. Unfortunately the creative world is hijacked by much impurity but we must win it back and become relevant. In the same way that the expressionists tried to express emotion or that Kandinsky tried to express the spiritual as he understood it through colour and shape and music.

God delights in choosing what everyone else might reject.

"... Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves."

Romans 14:22

(C) 2013 Daniel Chuter

The Ultimate Creator

The Ultimate Creator, the God of social justice.

When it comes to being creative we have a God who leaves everyone standing in awe. He is the advanced guard. He is the forerunner.
He looks at society from His Holy Temple and steps INTO IT when people cry out to Him for help.

With relevance He invades and Heals. His Spirit Creates when we give the chaos of our lives to Him.  As when He created in the beginning. No darkness is too great, in fact He comes into the storm.  He steps in when things seem impossible.

But His signature is unique. He takes our hearts desires and CREATES. He asks what we have that He can use. He uses it to fulfil us and those that we love.

He is AVANT GAURD when everyone else is trying to conform. He stands against the flow. He knows when to intervene and when to be so gentle.

He knows what is about to happen and what has already happened and what will happen in the future.  He anticipates us. He does above and beyond.

NO EAR HAS HEARD NOR EYE HAS SEEN NOR THE HEART OF MAN HAS NOT CONCEIVED what He has prepared for those that love Him.

Nice as a Photoshopped image is, it is not even close

to what awaits those, who have trusted in Him

(C) 2013 Daniel Chuter

What went wrong?

Creative people can tend to be very sensitive. They were made to be that way. But this gift must be harnessed. It comes from God and we must be healed.

Continuing the study on the ‘avant garde’ and modernist tradition of the recent century we shall look at a very interesting pattern. Vincent van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian had a christian tradition and background. Indeed Van Gogh’s father was a leader of a local church and Kandinsky grew up with all the tradition bible story teachings.

Vincent van Gogh, in fact, trained and studied as a preacher in Belgium for a while. He was a great pioneer and from an early age wanted to honour God with His work. But he didn’t get on with his dad.  Deep healing was needed. We know later that this man was tormented and in the end took his own life.

Kandinsky wrote much about the spiritual theory and meaning of art.  He listened to piano playing whilst painting and spoke much of his findings and expressed a new form of abstraction which has a huge influence. Yet he and Mondrian began to portray how they felt through form and colour.  Mondrian was best known for his Purist approach to his work where he removed emotion and expressed spiritual purity through a n absence of clutter, something which we do “outwardly’.  However both these painters arrived at a time when Europe was about to explode in the form of war and rebellion. They both subscribed to an occult based belief system. Called Theosophy, it was a new age thinking about a new order coming out of the chaos around them. The fruit of this was the destruction about to occur all over Europe but the influence and indeed seeds of this work continues.  This needs rooting out.

God needs to be central in our thinking and motivation. We need to get the deep roots and pain healed.  We can influence so many and defile so much at the same time. It is like a volcano to which immense pressure is applied beneath the surface. It can explode and effect many. Or it can effect many in a good way, but only when God is allowed to be in charge.

(C) 2013 Daniel Chuter

Creativity, reflecting & influencing society

I talked recently of the ‘avant garde’, a term that conjures up things that go against the expected norm... things pioneered... things that we are not used to seeing... NEW THINGS. However in terms of the discipline of painting and music particularly, we must be very careful about the original roots and birth of these. We need to have new expressions of creativity birthed by the Spirit of God. These will be of lasting value and ultimately they even change the atmosphere and pattern of society.

Let me give you an example, in the negative:
New avant garde ideas were being produced at the turn of the last century. Society was very disillusioned and the seeds of war existed. This in turn was reflected in creative terms. Philosophy at the turn of the century, about 1910, declared... ‘God was dead’(Nietzsche). German expressionist art tried to vent emotion whilst new developments in technology were de humanising society. Out of all this ‘Dada’ was born as a rebellious art movement, and in turn ‘surrealism’. All this of course was rooted in the thoughts that God had turned away or in fact that He didn’t even exist. These brief movements led to massive changes in the way in which we now see creative expression. We know what came later, maybe not directly as a result of art but this had a huge influence and effected the perception of many.  Creativity should be an indicator, RELEVANT to what is really going on.

God is raising up many different ways of expressing Himself.  But it must be rooted in His peace and order and pure motivation.

We are products of our society but only God can change what needs to be changed.  God’s creativity must be harnessed. When unchecked you get true innovative people but in rebellion.

What is happening in our society that must be reflected in creative expressions. But we must go further and reflect God’s values so that God is once more declared as ALIVE.  The Spirit of God comes to every generation and we all have a part.

So lets look at the roots. Lets come up higher and see what must happen.

(C) 2013 Daniel Chuter

Avant Guard

Avant Garde (guard) is a French term used to describe a group of soldiers going ahead of the rest.

Society as we now see it has been hugely influenced by the influence of modern art and creative thinking. In the disciplines of music, poetry, painting, dance and theatre the effect of this can clearly be seen. However, at it’s origin, this new movement was unpopular.

Obviously we must trace the real roots of this thinking, because it has had such a profound effect. You wouldn’t have to go far to realise that much of it was rooted in the anger of society and the rebellion of man. However it has now worked it’s way into every creative expression today.
In time we could do an in-depth study of the origins of the modern movement within many creative disciplines.

What is interesting is to look at the ways in which God births a lasting change in society. It is birthed in the creative heart of God and often the result of a generation asking for change. However the answer that God gives isn’t popular, or even understood. When Jesus came to earth, He wasn’t exactly welcomed as the answer to what people thought they needed.  There is a pattern within the way in which God has worked in the past.  It often involves the complete ABSTRACTION of what we have been led to expect and believe. The early church turned society upside down.

Are we witnessing this change. Modern art has changed everything, but it’s architecture resulted in awful modern flat units. Obviously, in principle, we can’t go too far in pursuing this.

However, something has to CHANGE.

(C) 2013 Daniel Chuter

Beyond cliché

It's a tough job... finding and digging the hidden and valuable things, but someone's got to do it... can't keep recycling the "same old, same old" all the time. -
Never Give Up, Dig for Victory!!!

Online Exhibition Space - Great Site

Daniel Chuter is producing a virtual gallery, via the brilliant "curated by" website.

Have a look at both...

CURATEDBY.COM

Future Hope

This was taken on a grey day when a mist was covering things up and making it hard to see anything beyond this tree. But it seemed to make a beautiful picture anyway. On another day you can see further into the distance. In our lives somethings cover up our vision making it hard for us to see a future remember God is still there.

Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Vanessa Robinson

Detente

Stop telling me what to do!!!
Stop telling us to stop telling you what to do!!!
Stop telling me to stop telling you, to stop telling me, what to do!!!
Stop telling... (well, you get the picture)

Intent

May the church, equipped to be the most creative people on earth, learn a new artistic language, devoid of cliches...