A recent Mandilion of Christ. The icon panel itself becomes the holy napkin! Enjoy of Christ#mandilion
Here is my latest icon. It shows St Columba of Iona and St Kentigern Mungo exchanging staffs. Columba gave hospitality to a stork blown off course, and Kentigern plowed the land with a stag pulling the plough. Pray for us all you saints kentigern#st columba#aidan hart#western saints#icons
The completed icon of St Ethelburga. This seventh century saint was abbess of the double monastery of Barking, London, and founded All Hallows by the Tower, one of the oldest churches in London, for whom this icon was made Ethelburga#all hallows by the tower#Aidan hart#icons#western saints
Here is the latest phase of St Ethelburga’s icon. She was famed in her day for founding the great abbey of Barking and for her care for those with the plague. Pray for us today, St Ethelburga ethelberga#all hallows by the tower#aidan hart
I’m working on a mosaic of Christ with the children for St George’s Orthodox Church, Houston. Tiny tesserae for the face – about 3mm square! More photos to follow#Houston#St George’s
Here are my wonderful new students for the next three years of the Icon Certificate programme of the Prince’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts. My previous students showed their amazing work at their Graduation show at Shoreditch, and some is now at Cornelissen’s, Great Russell St, London.
Jim Blackstone and I are gilding the iron icon screen I made for St Clement’s church, Cambridge. This cunning screen folds away after The Orthodox parish have finished their services.
My five-day icon course at Walcot Hall, Shropshire. Students from all over the world workshop#icon painting courses
The next episode of St Aidan’s icon! The gold of the central icon has been burnished. On Thursday I will begin gilding the two leaves, which will have four scenes from his life aidan#icons#gilding#
Here is a recent icon of St Laurence that I’ve painted. When told to give the emperor the riches of the Church, as the deacon in charge of almsgiving St Laurence gave away the church funds to the needy, then the gathered the poor and infirm and declared that these were the riches of the Church.
Greetings all. Here is a recent icon, for the beloved Shadid family in Houston. It shows all the family’s patron saints: Saints James, Dimitrios, George, Emilianos, Julitta and Kyrikos.
Here is my latest icon, of the 9th century Saint Ava. The icon commemorates the newly born child of God Ava of Ontario. Many years!
Here’s an icon is St Osgyth I’ve just finished. She is an Anglo Saxon Saint, d. 700 AD, who founded a convent in Chick/Chich. Pray for us St Osgyth!
Three of my students and I are painting a screen at St Mary’s, Anmer, commissioned by Prince Charles. More photos to come as we progress! Great work Lee Harvey, Michelle Hazel and Lisa Abbott!
Here is a detail of an icon of St Clement of Rome that I am painting for the Orthodox parish worshipping in St Clements, Cambridge#st clement of Rome
The mosaic of Christ Pantocrator, by Aidan. Installation at St George’s Houston Texas to be completed today#Christ Pantocrator#St George’s Houston#aidan hart
With beloved Fr Hames Shadid in Houston Texas, to install two mosaics at St George’s Orthodox Church. This mosaic is by the greatly gifted Martin Earle, the one of Christ (pic to follow) by me, trying to catch up to my once apprentice#st george#martin earle#
Here is a recent icon, Noli Me Tangere. Mary mistook Christ for the gardener. In fact, He is the new gardener, the Second Adam, fulfilling in Paradise what the first Adam failed to do. Enjoy#noli me tangere
Here is the most recent work, an icon of St Augustine of Canterbury, commissioned by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s office as a gift#augustine of Canterbury
I have just finished this invented “portrait”, a commission from a dear friend living in China. It is not an icon, but I have tried to express something of spiritual depth and mystery. It is painted only with four pigments: black, white, and red and yellow ochre painting
The Venerable Bede, for Beda Pontifical College Rome. My most recent icon. Its design emphasizes the fact that Bede researched and wrote all he did within the confines of his monastery walls#beda college#icon#western saints
This is a new icon, commissioned by www.panorthodoxconcernforanimals.org. Two of its themes is that we ought to treat animals with love and respect as creations of God, and that Christ has come to redeem not only the human race, but all creation, so marred by our human sin, including against animals, all too often cruelly treated by us humans#cruelty to animals#creation redeemed by Christ#Saint Isaac#John of Damascus
St Augustine of Canterbury. Just finished painting it – destined as a gift from the Archbishop of Canterbury of canterbury#icon#western saints#
Just finished this icon of the Transfiguration. Christ shows us “the nature of man arrayed in the original beauty of the Image of God.”
Here is my latest icon. It is of Saint Genevieve, patron saint of Paris, a fifth century woman of prayer and a peacemaker. Pray for us St Genevieve!
