We Are Looking for Beauty

There is a lot of noise in the world.

Everybody has something to say. Every website wants another click. Every social media page wants another follower. Everybody seems to be trying to speak a little louder so somebody will notice.

At Catholic Roads, we'd like to try something different.

We are looking for beauty.

Not simply pretty pictures. Not perfection. And certainly not art for art's sake.

We are looking for the kind of beauty that makes us stop for a moment and notice.

A sunrise over the Carolina countryside. Light falling across the side of an old church. A quiet sanctuary with a tabernacle lamp burning. The weathered face of someone with a wonderful story. A small town we have driven through a hundred times but never really stopped to see.

And yes—even the wonderfully funny faces and situations we find in our cartoons and caricatures.

Beauty is everywhere once we begin looking for it.

Because Beauty Points Beyond Itself

We believe God is beautiful.

And because God is the Creator, His fingerprints are all over His creation.

“The heavens declare the glory of God.” — Psalm 19:1

Sometimes creation does not need to explain itself.

The sunset doesn't need a caption.

The old oak doesn't need a sermon.

And sometimes a beautiful church standing quietly beside a country road says something about God before we've ever opened the door.

Beauty has a way of inviting us closer.

And that is one reason art matters so much to us.

Art Can Be an Invitation

When we create one of our Saltwater Colors, we're not trying to make an architectural record of a church or capture every brick, window and tree.

We're just trying to capture something about being there.

The light.

The quiet.

The character of the place.

The feeling that perhaps we ought to slow down, walk through that door and spend a few minutes with Jesus.

The same thing happens in other ways through our cartoons, caricatures and stories. Sometimes beauty makes us quiet. Sometimes it makes us remember.

And sometimes it makes us laugh.

All of those things can open the heart.

That's where evangelization can begin—not necessarily with us telling somebody what they ought to believe, but simply by sharing something beautiful that makes us wonder:

What's behind this?

We hope the answer eventually points beyond Catholic Roads and beyond the digital artist.

Toward God.

An Audience of One

Of course we'd like more people to discover Catholic Roads. We'd love for you to share our paintings, cartoons and stories with friends.

But getting a bigger audience is not the reason we do this. It cannot be. It must not be.

Otherwise, we're simply another voice trying to shout a little louder than all the other voices around us.

At the deepest level, our audience is One.

Christ.

We want what we create to honor Him.

And after that, we'll trust the Holy Spirit with the guest list.

Whoever finds us, finds us.

Whoever needs a particular painting, story, laugh or quiet moment today—perhaps there is a reason they found it.

Our job is simply to keep looking.

Look Again

And perhaps that's what we'd like to encourage you to do with us.

Look again.

Notice the church you've passed a hundred times.

Notice the evening light.

Notice the old face.

Notice the little town.

Notice the laughter around the table.

Notice the beautiful things that don't make headlines.

There is still tremendous beauty in this world.

And behind every bit of genuine beauty is something greater than the beauty itself.

So we'll keep painting.

We'll keep drawing.

We'll keep laughing.

We'll keep traveling the Catholic Roads and stopping at churches along the Eucharistic Trail.

And we'll keep looking for beauty.

Because the more closely we look at what is beautiful, the more often we seem to discover that God was there all along.

Our Story

That’s our story, and we’re sticking to it!

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