Family Brag

I don't often mention family in this blog, but my brother Daryl and his wife Anja live in Sacramento CA. Daryl's a school teacher and writer. Anja is an artist. She has found her true metier in restoration of statues and interior church design.

Look at the fine job she's done on some old statues we had here in our parish of Our Lady of the Rosary. These images were from the 1950s and had been in the original little white house that was used for a church.

The original factory spray paint job was faded, and St Joseph needed repair. Look at these great 'before' and 'after' pictures:

If you need statues for your church or chapel, go to one of the church salvage places and get an old plaster statue. They're plentiful and cheap. Then send it to Anja and ask her to restore it. You can see the end result is a hand painted restoration that looks better than the original factory mass produced job.

Anja has also done some expert work for a couple of parishes served by priests from the Fraternity of St Peter. These traditionalist parishes often choose to buy a disused church and renovate it.  So Anja helps them transform a useable church building from the Protestant tradition into a Catholic Church. Here is a stunning video of the work she does.

Go here to see her website. She also does original sculpture, painted 'tapestries' and stained glass windows as well as paintwork and stencil design.