Christian Abstract Art Prints

Abstract art sets aside recognisable figures and lets colour, shape, line and texture carry meaning. Some of its pioneers were deeply interested in the spiritual: Wassily Kandinsky published Concerning the Spiritual in Art in 1911, arguing that colour could move the soul much as music does. Later, Mark Rothko's dark fields of colour came to fill the Rothko Chapel in Houston, a quiet, non-denominational space for reflection that opened in 1971.

Abstraction has found a home in churches too. In 2007 Gerhard Richter's south transept window, made of thousands of coloured glass squares, was unveiled in Cologne Cathedral. Henri Matisse's Chapel of the Rosary in Vence, consecrated in 1951, used simplified forms and pure colour to create a place of luminous calm.

Christian abstract art might suggest the cross through two meeting lines, the Spirit through rushing colour, or resurrection through light breaking upwards. It suits devotion because it leaves space for prayer rather than telling a story; “Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10) captures its spirit well. Our abstract prints suit modern interiors, prayer rooms and anyone who finds that quiet colour helps them pray.