Fruits of the Spirit

During Lent 2025 I collaborated with my girlfriend Grady van den Bosch, in a project around the nine Fruits of the Spirit, as described in the Bible verse of Galatians 5. 

We developed a proces in which we explored both 5 themes. 4 different ones and a theme together: Love. 

I explored the themes: Joy, Gentleness, Goodness and Self-control. Grady explored the themes: Peace, Faith, Patience and Kindness. 

On this page we first show some results, and further a selection of images of the process. 

Stephan

Joy

Gentleness

Love

Goodness

Self Controle

Grady

Faith

Friendliness

Love

Patience

Peace

Picture right: the start of the project:
We each choose 4 themes and both the thema “Love”

On the left: the start of the project with my own sketches and an image of Grady, digitally blended, in order tot show our process together. 

Pictures under: sketches by Stephan. The theme of the centre sketch is “Love”. First sketches with charcoal (picture above), next sketches with ecoline. 

Sketches by Grady, theme “Faith”. 

Photography of a string on white papier, drawings with ecoline, digitally layered.

Pictures under: the process of Stephan, the images are getting more layered

Left: sketch of “Gentleness”. Centre: sketch of “Goodness”. Right: sketches of the themes, third series.

The process of Grady:

Far left: in the art studio of Stephan, working on the theme “Love”

Left: sketch of “Patience”

Right: sketch of “Love”

Picture under left: Sketch by Stephan: Selfcontrole
Picture centre: Stephan in his art-studio, working together with Grady
Picture right: Sketch bij Grady: Peace

Picture left: sketch by Stephan: Joy
Watercolor on paper

Picture right: sketch by Grady: Friendliness
Photography of a string, digitally layered and edtited

Pictures below: three sketches by Stephan: Joy, Love and Self Controle.
Aquarel on paper. Picture right under: Stephan painting in the art studio of Grady

Pictures under:
Grady in her art studio, working on “Friendliness”
Art: Patience, Love and Friendliness, by Grady
Photography with ecoline drawing, digitally edited and layered

Working together in the art studio of Grady.
Stephan works on “Kindness” and Grady on “Friendliness”. 
Stephan works with aquarel and Grady with ecoline. She will later edit her drawing digitally with photography.