So, it can be done.
Years ago I had a discussion with a very learned Jesuit who told me that modern churches needed modern and contemporary art, and that any attempt to recreate the glories of the past was doomed to be pastiche, and nothing was worse than pastiche. My answer to him was that churches surely needed good art, and the modern and contemporary was not always good, though it sometimes could be. Funnily enough this conversation took place in Campion Hall, which has a beautiful chapel, the creation of Edwin Lutyens, which is decorated by several great artists such as Frank Brangwyn and the little known but brilliant Charles Mahoney. The trouble is, where are the Frank Brangwyns of today?
