Picture Courtesy of Saint Mun's, Dunoon Website This painting was commissioned by Father Roddy McAuley, Parish priest of Our Lady and Saint Mun's Church in Dunoon. Father Roddy granted me the freedom to interpret his vision for this work in my own visual way. For this, I thank him. The Madonna Nurse is based on a recurring vision of his. In his own words: An image keeps on coming back to me. It is of a person wearing a protective coronavirus mask, and the person has tears streaming down their face. The tears fall onto the desert sand and water the desert, and lo and behold, these tears cause beautiful flowers to spring up from the barren earth. Associated with this idea is the one that after this dark cloud of the coronavirus has passed, the sun will shine again, and the Faith will be alivened. People will see their neighbour in a different way, and there will be a great revival. In times of crisis, God and the natural world are great sources of joy, strength and comfort. In da...