OUR MADONNA Our pictures of Mary celebrate Mary’s Assumption (our school mass on 15 August). Our pictures of Mary show a Maori Mary. In some of our pictures her dress was tapa cloth and others had kowhaiwhai patterns. There were two different pictures which we used to get the size of her head and body right. In the paintings she looks like a Maori mother holding Jesus. Her clothes have Maori patterns and she’s wearing pounamu tiki and earings. These paintings were done by a New Zealand painter called Julia Lynch. MADONNA is a famous title for Mary and lots of famous paintings and sculptures have been named MADONNA. One of Julia Lynch’s paintings is called Southern Madonna. They’re really beautiful and they remind us that Mary is peaceful, graceful, caring and kind. Check back on Monday to see photos of our paintings.

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