Baptismal Font 1937

Harry Mann Waddell made this watercolor painting, Baptismal Font, and it gives me the feeling of something made with a kind of devoted attention. It is a humble object, rendered with care. I imagine Waddell, standing before the original baptismal font, trying to capture every little detail. It’s not about grand gestures here but about the accumulation of small marks, building up to form a whole. You know? The color palette is earthy, mostly browns and reds, giving the font a sense of history, of being worn by time. There’s something deeply human about it, a connection to tradition, to ritual. What I love about painting, and what Waddell's work reminds me of, is how it becomes a conversation across time. Artists build on what’s come before, reinterpreting, reimagining. I see my own work as part of that lineage, a continuous exploration of form, color, and feeling.