About these Icons

A long time ago, a monk handed me a palette knife and told me to come and learn to paint icons. I accepted his call, and today work as a full-time iconographer.

The icons made in the Conestoga Iconographic Studio represent a vision of Orthodox icons for the New World.While drawing deeply from the rich tradition of Eastern Orthodox iconography, their aim is to create a contempory vision for prayer in the Americas. As such they embody an innocence, candidness, and joy. These icons are more stylized and flatter than those of other schools—lines are bold, colour’s frank, and clothing rendered in a simple geometry.

All the materials I use in making an icon come from the land—my pigment colours most often being found around the village of Conestoga where I live and work. Foraging from the soil, plants, and animals, I take what I harvest and create a testament to the love of God which energizes the whole earth.

I make icons for churches, missions, and homes, offer workshops coast to coast, and regularly present on my iconographic work.