Angel of Sacred Friendship

"You have given me a friend who knows me as you do, 
and I know her, and I know him, the same.

Here is communion 
in the garden of soul and strength angelic on our way. 

By this love, one for the other, a sun rises in my heart, and in that light I see my goodness as I see my friend's. 

We travel not alone the winding journey home."

Prayer by G Herbertson

About the Artist

Lynn Garlick started carving, painting, and producing her retablos in 1993. Her workshop is located in the high desert town of Taos, New Mexico, a landscape richly steeped in religious iconography and history. The retablo, or ʻboard behind the alterʼ, was originally created in New Mexico in the 1800ʼs in response to the lack of Bibles and Icons being sent from the church in Rome. The Santero (saint maker) painted retablos from pigment collected and ground from the local surroundings. The boards were hand hewed usually of ponderosa pine or tin. The practice has carried down through the generations and is still done this way today. Lynn paints her originals retablos on traditional pine boards carving and then paints them. To create her production work the images are mounted on baltic birch.