|PIC1|Delma purchased a beautiful lady's white handkerchief. "I then crocheted a lovely border all around it, hand-crafted the bride's and bridegroom's names, followed by two butterflies and two rings, symbols of love," Delma Tronson explained. "I then had the whole item laminated and framed."
Mark Tronson uses his ancestral title Tronson du Coudray as a professional artist, and as such, is known as 'the missionary painter'. He chose to create a philosophical art work, and wondered what form it might take.
"I reflected on our own marriage. The most important means of communication we have enjoyed in 32 years have been 'night drives'. When the children were little, we would bundle them up into the car and go for an hour's drive, and then talk," the missionary painter noted.
Spousal communication is crucial to maintaining the marriage relationship. Both the husband and the wife need to be able to listen to each other. The subject matter is almost immaterial. Ensuring the other spouse is talking, and you are actively taking notice, is the core of the matter.
Delma Tronson commented, "For us, the motor vehicle was ideal. The close environment enabled me to listen to what was in my husband's heart, and he to mine. Our tiny tots were not an interruption, they were secure in the back seat, sometimes listening in, but more than often asleep."
It was to this theme therefore that the missionary artist drew his brushes upon canvas, with the resulting gift entitled 'the conversation'.