Featured image: Veil of Grace: Our Lady of Guadalupe, Marcie Stammen, 2025, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 in. / 91.44 x 121.92 cm.
Marcie Stammen’s newest series blends the spiritual, the organic, and the luminous, transforming nature into a vessel of praise and quiet revelation.
Marcie Stammen creates luminous, faith-infused artworks that blend natural realism with layered symbolism, hymnal collage, and expressive mixed-media techniques.
Working in mixed media, oil, and watercolor, Stammen layers hymnal sheet music, expressive mark-making, and radiant color to explore how creation itself becomes worship. These three works, Glory and Praise to Our God, All Hail the Power, and Sunlit Hunt, invite viewers into a world where divine wonder lives in a bee’s wing, a flower’s trembling petals, and the sunlit path of a tiger swimming through blue depths.
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Glory and Praise to Our God, Marcie Stammen, 2025, mixed media on watercolor paper, 14 x 11 in. / 35.56 x 27.94 cm.
In Glory and Praise to Our God, Stammen overlays hymnal text beneath a richly textured honeybee, merging sacred music with the rhythms of the natural world. The bee’s golden fur, rendered with expressive strokes and inked detail, vibrates with life. Transparent wings glow with blues and warm yellows, subtly echoing the musical staff beneath them. The background, soft, atmospheric washes of color, creates a sense of divine breath or whispered prayer. By positioning the bee as both subject and symbol, Stammen highlights the quiet devotion embedded in pollinators, their tireless work sustaining creation itself.
All Hail the Power, Marcie Stammen, 2025, oil on canvas, 18 x 24 in. / 45.72 x 60.96 cm.
This oil painting rises from layers of collaged hymn pages, forming the unseen foundation of a dazzling flower in bloom. Dew-like spheres glisten across the petals, each rendered with shimmering highlights that feel like droplets of light rather than water. Purples, blues, and golds radiate outward in a composition that seems to pulse with life. Stammen’s fluid brushwork, balanced by her intricate textural details, transforms the floral form into an emblem of praise. The flower does not simply bloom, it lifts its voice. It worships. It becomes an altar in motion.
Sunlit Hunt, Marcie Stammen, 2025, mixed media on watercolor paper, 28 x 22 in. / 71.12 x 55.88 cm.
Sunlit Hunt shifts the spiritual lens toward animal instinct and courage. A tiger wades through a river streaked with reflections of forest greens and piercing blue light. Sunbeams break through the canopy like divine revelation, illuminating the tiger’s orange stripes as if blessing its journey. Stammen’s dynamic brushwork captures the tension between motion and stillness, the quiet power of a creature fully alive in its environment. Here, creation becomes a cathedral, and the tiger a fierce worshipper moving through its sacred space.
Together, these artworks position nature as a living hymn, each creature, each petal, each beam of sunlight participating in a greater chorus of praise. Stammen’s fusion of sacred text, expressive mark-making, and vivid realism invites viewers to recognize divinity not as a distant concept but as something humming, blooming, and moving through the world around us. Her work is a reminder: creation is not passive, it sings.
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I Want to Praise Your Name, Marcie Stammen, 2025, mixed media on watercolor paper, 20 x 16 in. / 50.8 x 40.64 cm.
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