Where is God – Coronavirus

By Alanna-Lillie, aged 12 from Where is God? 

Doing this artwork has made me think about religion and whether there is a God at all.

To make this image I used water colour to create the rainbow background by dipping my paintbrush in paint and flicking it onto the paper to give the blended effect. I used pencil for the face and then I cut it out and applied it onto the water colour background.

I was influenced by the current situation we are in now (lockdown) and by the thousands of deaths across the world.

My ’Art of heaven’ work is about the coronavirus tearing families and friends apart. I think my work connects to religion because if God was real then why would he take all of the good people who are trying to stop the spread of the virus? Why wouldn’t he take all the bad people who have done bad things in life?

I have tried to show my thoughts and ideas in my piece of art by drawing a person being teared apart showing how, family and friends are ripped away from us from the disease.

I hope people will notice the rainbow in the background because it represents the NHS workers. If God is real, then why is he letting it take the lives of innocent people, people who are trying to save the world we live on?

I like the work I’ve been working on as it shows the state are lives and the world is in now and what effect it has on people.