Ecclesiastes 11:6

Artist

Nathlyn Matthew

Artist bio

Born and raised in Dominica, and has been drawing since the age of 12. She is also a self-taught artist who is very passionate about drawing and painting. This passion all started with an innocent young child trying to imitate her older sister. It grew and grew over the years with just one thought in mind, “I want to be better than her”. Nathlyn has always been intrigued with drawing and painting. She feels a surge of excitement when taking something real and displaying it on paper and it STILL looks real. She almost gets paralyzed with awe when something in mind comes together on canvas. Throughout her life she wanted to give up on drawing and painting because it is not very profitable in her country. But for some reason art would always find itself back to her. So, what she discovered about her failed attempts at quitting, is that drawing and painting lives and breathes in her. She won third place in the 2019 Earth Day poster competition held by the Barbados US embassy.

Visual Arts 2026 Contest

Title

Medium/Genre

Digital Art

Artist Statement

Digital art of someone planting seeds of kindness.
Seeds are shaped like a heart to represent that kindness.

How it fits into contest

Ecclesiastes 11:6 NIV
Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let your hands not be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well.

Kindness
(n) The quality or state of being friendly, generous, gentle and considerate

Kindness may seem small, but even a mustard tree starts of as a small seed.
And farmers don't judge their harvest by the number of seeds they plant because they never know how many might take root when sowed.

People should do the same with kindness. To persistently plant seeds of kindness everywhere we go because a simple act of kindness can make all the difference in someone's day.

Seeds of kindness can be a "Good morning" , to a stranger. It can be a few kind words to someone struggling or even a smile to someone who is unknowningly silently in pain.

Sow seeds of kindness consistently, and trust that God will bring a future harvest of good in lives of others.