Vicki Beeching

This is Vicki Beeching, an English Worship Leader/Artist who hails from England. She's now living in Nashville and doing pretty well here in the States judging by the number of appearances she is putting in at Conferences, concerts and Seminars all over the country. And so she should be. She is a great songwriter with a great heart and a bubbly personality. (These pics were taken at the Saddleback Worship and Creative Arts Conference in June.)

Her latest album, Painting The Invisible, has had a good thrashing in our car over the last few months. Great stuff! Music following in the footsteps of Matt Redman and Tim Hughes with a great female voice. My favorite song is The Wonder Of The Cross which is a hymn she wrote in response to her Grandfather's prompting to write something he would like.

Here are some of Vicki's own words about her album:

“Trying to describe the Eternal using earthly words is like trying to scoop up the whole ocean into the palm of your hand. It’s like trying to count every star in the endless midnight sky. All of our words fall so short; every melody failing to capture the true beauty of the Heavenly.” So says Vicky Beeching, a fourth generation worship leader, music prodigy and Oxford-educated songwriter.

“When we write songs about God,” Vicky says, “though we see him in everything he has made, to some degree we are flying blind. With our limited human resources we are struggling to find ways to express something that is heavenly…that is Other. Yet because it is our passion, we can’t remain silent. So we search for words and melodies to describe Him. Hunting and rummaging into every corner of language and expression, raiding the closet of linguistics for a suitable outfit to clothe our feelings in words…we are describing the indescribable. We are ‘painting the invisible.’”