Harold Sikkema

Harold Sikkema creates images that fuse tactile media with digital expression. These pixel-paintings make accessible a visual-theological discourse, through the playful aesthetic that his Reformed faith encourages: an inventive meshing of our fallen world's textures towards cohesion and unity within the redemptive story. By digitally blending paintings and drawings with what he calls the "photographic brushstroke," he responds to such themes as language, time, growth, and resurrection. His organic fusion of the particular within the general facilitates spiritual reflection around a layered, vi...

Harold Sikkema creates images that fuse tactile media with digital expression. These pixel-paintings make accessible a visual-theological discourse, through the playful aesthetic that his Reformed faith encourages: an inventive meshing of our fallen world's textures towards cohesion and unity within the redemptive story. By digitally blending paintings and drawings with what he calls the "photographic brushstroke," he responds to such themes as language, time, growth, and resurrection. His organic fusion of the particular within the general facilitates spiritual reflection around a layered, visual poetry.

Sikkema lives in Hamilton, Ontario, and works as a freelance web developer, graphic designer and artist. Visit his work online at www.nsitu.ca.