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Artist: Painting's Characters Have Stories to Tell
MINNEAPOLIS, MN (June 14, 2005) - Special to Covenant News Service
Eighty-three-year old Muriel Linton
apologizes on the telephone - "I'm sorry," she says, "but this cold
gives me an old lady voice" - before launching into her story.
A resident of Bethany Covenant Village for the last 10 years, Linton is
bursting to tell someone about her painting called He Leadeth Me.
For more than 30 years, Linton taught painting and won several awards,
but only once did she tackle a sacred subject - Jesus walking on the
road to Jerusalem. In her painting, Jesus is accompanied on the road by
a dozen figures from all walks of life: several children, an older man,
a queen, and a soldier with bowed head.
Each of them has a story to tell, says Linton, who for years did
presentations based on the painting. She recently did a presentation at
Bethany Covenant Village, with a digital version of the picture
displayed on a wall, describing the story of each character. She hopes
to do more presentations in the future.
"I am eighty-three, but that doesn't matter," she says. "I feel l can
really serve the Lord through the message of this painting."
Linton has always been a performer at heart - she once had a
ventriloquist act featuring "Candy the talking doll" and for a time had
her own radio show. In recent years, Linton has taken up writing,
publishing six books. The latest is called, Tackling a Leopard
Single-handed in Africa and Other True Stories. The title is based
on an incident she learned about while serving a short-term mission in
Africa while in her twenties. According to Linton, a missionary she knew
once saved a government official from certain death by taking on a
leopard single-handed.
"As crazy as it sounds," she says, "it's a true story."
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