The Trinity – for Christians - reveals a God who is love. In this painting the Trinity is pictured as a circular motion of swirling colour (colours inspired by the Rublev Trinity of the 15th century) of gold for the Father, scarlet for the Son and green for the Spirit.The white circle stands for the one God…

The whole dynamic is of a humble obeisance where Father, Son and Spirit surrender to each other and yet the whole remains a consuming fire, a blazing furnace of love, different to the rather distant and cold and static images of the Trinity that we sometimes encounter.

There is complete knowledge and understanding of each other in the Trinity. Nothing is hidden. We, too, want to be known and fully understood. The Trinity is not about possessing or controlling. It is a dynamic of giving and receiving and this love is so great that it chooses to overflow to create the stars, the earth, life and....us.

And when things go wrong, the Son shoulders our sin to the point of abandonment on the cross. The Spirit is that love binding Father and Son that makes its home in us.

One theologian speaks of the burden of sin that Jesus carries as being swallowed up in the distance between the Father and the Son which is portrayed here as the deep blue of the sea.