Icon Articles

Saint Peter was one of the twelve Apostles of Christ and leader in the early Christian church. He is often given the title, “Chief of the Apostles” because of Christ’s words that his Church would be built with Saint Peter

Anyone who walks into an Orthodox church will know the prominence given to John the Baptist. Standing in front of the iconostasis (or icon-screen), there stands Christ, Saint Mary the Theotokos, and this saint. The icon of Christ is a

The latest issue of Taproot Magazine arrived in our postbox last Friday. Inside it is an article I wrote about my experience of different communities and their local colours! I entitled the piece, “Painting with Local Color” and in it

Yesterday, I was invited to give a homily at St. John the Evangelist Church in Elora. It was a joy to playfully share some of the significance that the studio’s work finds in detail, like the strip of linen attached

The diptych is finished and delivered. The ebony wood is striking with the icon’s figures, I think, and the work is pleasingly heavy in the hand.  It was well received by the patron, and I was assured that it would

It was a joy to receive this commission from the Mission to Seafarers in Hamilton for three large icons. Each was created on solid, basswood panels that measuring 24” x 36”. After being blessed today in the church of Saint