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My icons are made using traditional techniques and materials, including egg tempera and ground pigment on gessoed linden wood boards. I use a limited palette of red earths, yellow ochres, Mayan blue and azurite, black and white. These were mainly the pigments accessible to the very early works which for me have authenticity. It also makes for much greater aesthetic harmony. I make other colours from these pigments by washing and layering. I generally use compositions based on early (Pre 14th Century) images.
Gilding is done with 23.5 carat extra thick gold leaf. Backgrounds are generally either gold or painted in a single dominant colour to express the timeless quality of the spiritual truth being evoked.
My icons are made using traditional techniques and materials, including egg tempera and ground pigment on gessoed linden wood boards. I use a limited palette of red earths, yellow ochres, Mayan blue and azurite, black and white. These were mainly the pigments accessible to the very early works which for me have authenticity. It also makes for much greater aesthetic harmony. I make other colours from these pigments by washing and layering. I generally use compositions based on early (Pre 14th Century) images.
Gilding is done with 23.5 carat extra thick gold leaf. Backgrounds are generally either gold or painted in a single dominant colour to express the timeless quality of the spiritual truth being evoked.