Richard Hugh Blackford's Original Painting-"By the Book"

Title: "By the Book"
Dimensions: 24"x 30"
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Richard Hugh Blackford's Jamaican painting. The theme of this work is "spirituality" and in Jamaica, this theme is significant. The island is known to have more churches per square mile than anywhere else in the world, with Christianity being its most dominant religion given its slavery and plantation heritage. 
The painting depicts a pair of worshipers enraptured with the "word" as they go through their worship paces "by the book"