Flame by
Iain Cotton

Portland stone   

The words are from ‘God’s Grandeur’, a poem by the Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins: ‘The world is charged with the grandeur of God. / It will flame out, like shining from shook foil…’

Hopkins explores themes of God’s glory in creation, the destructive power of industry and hope for a new dawn in our relationships with the natural world: themes which have acquired greater urgency in our own time.