by David Clayton on April 12, 2013
Here are some photo’s of a new mosaic just installed in Wales, designed and made by Aidan Hart. (H/t David Woolf) I have taken the them from his website, here. Aidan’s photos give us a sense of how it was produced as well as the what the final product looks like. The church, St Martins [...]
by David Clayton on December 30, 2011
The Techniques of Icon and Wall Painting by Aidan Hart. This is the best art instruction book I know of. In my opinion it should be read and absorbed by all artists regardless of the medium and the tradition they are working in. It is available in the US from Holy Trinity Bookstore, and in [...]
by David Clayton on November 18, 2011
It is with much excitement that I await the arrival of a new book on the theology, history and painting techniques of icon painting. I have just heard that this has now been published by Gracewing in the UK and he told me that as yet there is no US distributor. If anybody knows how [...]
by David Clayton on July 22, 2011
This is written by icon painter Aidan Hart (my teacher who is based in England). When reading the following, the reader should be aware that the in the Orthodox Tradition the form of liturgical art is restricted to the iconographic (that which, as Aidan puts it below, aims to ‘manifest the world and saints transfigured’). [...]
by David Clayton on April 8, 2011
I wrote a piece a while ago about the creation of an icon of a contemporary saint. I learnt about this from directly from my teacher Aidan Hart. I can remember once when I was visiting him he had created just such and icon – of New Martyr Elizabeth: a member of the Russian royal [...]
by David Clayton on July 21, 2010
When I was in my early thirties (quite late to be making these decisions) I made an earnest decision to try to learn icon painting. I telephoned the only icon painter I knew, someone whom I had met once about five years earlier. Since I had met him, Br Aidan had spent a number of [...]
