Raymond Gaston is a portrait painter who was born in the Philippines but now lives in England. He painted six scenes from the New Testament for the Bristol church, each of them featuring Mary the mother of Jesus. He felt he was directly inspired by her before he began work on the ‘Marriage in Cana’ painting: 'I dreamed the Blessed Virgin Mary took me to the banquet and she sat across the table in front of me. I moved back to view the whole room full of people. This I painted. I used as my models, friends and parishoners, young and old. For Jesus and Mary, I simply copied their faces from the visions I had in my dreams.'