Michelle Gatley-Dewing

I have been painting for 8 years. I started painting images from Africa. I loved the ethnic diversity and the wild life. These subjects are popular with tourists and so I was able to market my art.
When the market slowed to a standstill, I put away my paint brush and tried to find what it was that God wanted me to do in life - besides for being the mother of an army of 5 children! Having taken many diverse directions in my life as far as careers go, I remained the most passionate about art. It did not seem possible that God would call me to do something that was so much fun as painting! Surely it had to be something less frivolous? 
Finally I began to understand the incredibly complex and simple process of 'just being" as opposed to 'doing'. In this season I realised that God has in fact called me to paint! 

Thus began the new season of prophetic art. I hope to inspire people to look up.

This is the first painting in my series called: CREATION

You formed me in my inward parts. You covered me in my mother's womb. Your eyes saw my substance being yet unformed. In your book they were all written the day's fashioned for me when as yet there were none of them.

How awesome to know that none of us are accidentally here and that our days were written
down long before we even began!