Paul Tabraham – Emmanuel Church Eastbourne

Eco Church: Caring for God’s Earth

Paul Tabraham | October 6, 2024

Emmanuel Church is delighted to announce that we have achieved the Bronze Eco Church Award through the A Rocha UK Project. Emmanuel qualified for the award partly as a result of the modern and environmentally-friendly premises, partly through the efforts made both inside and outside the church to be more ethical and sustainable, and partly […]

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Looking Forwards Or Looking Back

Paul Tabraham | October 1, 2024

How do you find the autumn? I know lots of people who have told me it’s their favourite time of year. They love the changing skies, colours of leaves going to red, yellow and orange, the sense of gardens and green areas preparing to rest for the winter months. Some people have told me they

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Ten Years…

Paul Tabraham | September 1, 2024

Do you know what the traditional gift for a Tenth Anniversary is? No, I didn’t either… if pressed I’d have guessed wood or cotton or something. Apparently it’s tin. Yes, tin. I find this a slightly underwhelming image if I a perfectly honest. I associate tins with baked beans, tomato soup, condensed milk (what is

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Summer Downtime

Paul Tabraham | July 1, 2024

A calendar year contains rhythms and seasons, rises and falls in nature, temperature, weather, light and more. We adjust accordingly in our habits, the hours we keep, what we do with our time and energy, and somehow the year will balance out and we begin again. Since September 2023 when we moved into the new

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5000 Reasons to be Cheerful

Paul Tabraham | June 1, 2024

The Five Thousand | Eularia Clarke (1914-1970) | Oil on canvas laid down on board 65 x 62 cm | 1962 | Methodist Modern Art Collection CLA/1965/1 | Image Copyright © Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes. The Methodist Church Registered Charity no. 1132208 With the ‘New Vision’ Art Exhibition in our midst until 13th June,

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‘New Vision’

Paul Tabraham | May 1, 2024

Welcome to the May Magazine, and the Emmanuel Exhibition of the Methodist Modern Art Collection is almost here! ‘New Vision’ has been quite some years in the undertaking – we obviously couldn’t plan in great specifics until we were in the new premises. A huge thank you to the Steering Group who have overseen, planned,

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Looking or Seeing?

Paul Tabraham | April 1, 2024

I had so many beautiful images to choose from for this month’s cover of our Emmanuel Magazine – so many of the Methodist Modern Art Collection pieces are Holy Week, Easter and Pentecost themed. Well, after February’s The Elements of Holy Communion and March’s The Cross over the City, I’m going with people this time:

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