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		<title>Michael Smither: St Francis in Ecstasy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This second painting of Saint Francis by Michael Smither depicts the patron saint of ecology &#8211; Smither&#8217;s favorite saint &#8211; in a state of ecstasy in the presence of nature. Like many NZ artists, Michael is strongly influenced by the landscape.

This painting is the second half of a diptych that also features Saint Francis Receiving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Smither: &#8220;I Would Have Been a Franciscan&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If I hadn&#8217;t become a painter, I would have been a Franciscan,&#8221; is how Christian artist Michael Smither described himself in an interview with the New Zealand Women&#8217;s Weekly in 1969.

Michael made several paintings of Saint Francis &#8211; his favorite saint.  This one is called &#8220;Saint Francis Receives the Stigmata&#8221;, and while it definitely is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Smither: &#8220;Art Gives You An Emotional Map&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Art gives you an emotional map of your environment.&#8221; Michael Smither 4 Dec 1971. Michael Smither has long been one of my favorite New Zealand artists.

It was his landscapes that first spoke to me, but he has other brilliant work as well.  He&#8217;s a Christian artist, and an artist who is happy to talk about [...]]]></description>
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