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The Question of Polychrome for Liturgical Woodcarving – Part 1

By Andrew Gould on June 29, 2015
The Question of Polychrome for Liturgical Woodcarving - Part 1

This is post 1 of 2 in the series “The Question of Polychrome for Liturgical Woodcarving” Andrew Gould looks at the role polychromy has played in historical liturgical arts and how it can be adapted to contemporary designs. The Question of Polychrome for Liturgical Woodcarving – Part 1 The Question of Polychrome – Part 2: […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Andrew Gould, baroque, Byzantine, Carving, color, gilding, greece, greek, iconostasion, iconostasis, liturgical, Orthodox, painting, polychrome, Russia, wood April 8, 2017

The Transfiguration in Shadow.

By Jonathan Pageau on May 4, 2015
The Transfiguration in Shadow.

Last year I was asked by a patron to carve a large icon of the Transfiguration.  She said: “I am curious to see how you will do that.”  I understood immediately what she meant, and her comment for me went to the core of what icon carving attempts to grapple with.  So much of Orthodox theology, especially since St-Gregory of Palamas […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged art, Carving, fr. Andreas Andreaopoulos, Icon, iconography, Orthodoxy, pageau, transfiguration, wood May 4, 2015

The Carved Icons of Elena and Sergio Nikolenko

By Jonathan Pageau on September 24, 2014
The Carved Icons of Elena and Sergio Nikolenko

I was recently made aware of two wonderful Russian carvers named Elena and Sergio Nikolenko.  Their work is quite impressive, using ornament with spectacular precision.  Their stylisation of faces ranges from the more iconic to more realistic features depending on pieces. The couple work on their icons together, with Elena being the designer and the one […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography, Minor Arts | Tagged carved icon, Carving, Icon, linden. Jonathan Pageau, Nikolenko, Russia, wood June 5, 2017

Adapting a Painted Icon to Carving

By Jonathan Pageau on March 3, 2014
Adapting a Painted Icon to Carving

One of the exciting aspects of the renewal in icon carving we have seen in the last few decades is how this renewal is in a constant dialogue with painted icons.  One of the visible goals, one of my own goals, is a search to infuse into the carved image some of the visual aspects […]

Posted in Iconography | Tagged carved, Carving, Icon, Jonathan Pageau, Orthodox, St-Anne, Tzanes, wood March 3, 2014

Russian Wooden Churches

By Lynette Hull on February 17, 2014
Russian Wooden Churches

For those readers interested in architecture or those interested in Russian Orthodox cultural heritage, the website by architect Richard Davies is a wonder.  Davies stumbled across of set of postcards from 1911 that featured some old photos and drawings of wooden churches in Russia.  Inspired by the postcards, Davies traveled to Russia in 2002 to […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Architecture, churches, restoration, Russia, stave, wood July 3, 2014

The Robot and The Master

By Jonathan Pageau on September 23, 2013

This is post 1 of 3 in the series “Hand and Machine” Jonathan Pageau and Andrew Gould exchange ideas in an attempt to understand the difficulties and opportunities of new technologies in the making of liturgical art. The discussion is also in reaction to fr. Silouan’s article on Degraded Iconicity. The Robot and The Master […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged Carving, cnc, Icon, iconicity, robot, wood April 1, 2017

Seat of Wisdom

By Jonathan Pageau on August 12, 2013
Close-up of seat of wisdom

A few months ago, Aidan Hart wrote a wonderful article on the possibility of statuary acting as icon.  He did this in the context of having sculpted a model for a stone version of the Seat of Wisdom.  Just as he was posting his article, I was also receiving a commission for a wooden carving […]

Posted in Iconography | Tagged Carving, gold, iconography, Jonathan Pageau, medieval, Seat of Wisdom, sign of the Theotokos, theotokos, Throne of Wisdom, wood July 8, 2014

Carved Wedding Crowns

By Jonathan Pageau on August 5, 2013
Carved Wedding Crowns

I recently had the chance to make some wooden crowns for a seminarian planning his wedding.  I had occasionally seen wooden crowns in recent Orthodox weddings and so I knew it was not completely an innovation.  In discussion with the patron we decided on a tiara form, which would include a miniature stone icon and […]

Posted in Liturgical Objects, Minor Arts | Tagged crown, Icon, iconography, Jonathan Pageau, maple, miniature, steatite, stone, wedding, wood July 8, 2014

A Byzantine Church in Wood for South Carolina

By Andrew Gould on August 2, 2013
A Byzantine Church in Wood for South Carolina

For the past year, I have been working to design a substantial new church building for the OCA parish of St. John of the Ladder in Greenville, South Carolina. The parish has acquired an attractive wooded property and wishes to relocate completely. They will need a temple for 250 people and also a parish hall. […]

Posted in Architecture | Tagged Andrew Gould, Architecture, Byzantine, church, greek, greenville, New World Byzantine, Orthodox, russian, south carolina, stick-frame, wood, wooden April 20, 2022

Learning Icon Carving with Hexaemeron

By Jonathan Pageau on May 24, 2013
Learning Icon Carving with Hexaemeron

Icon carving is an art which has been experiencing a great renewal in Orthodoxy all across the world.  In the last 15 years we have seen several amazing icon carvers appear, with Aidan Hart in England, the Azbuhanov couple in Russia.  The art of miniature carving has also been  finding  a quality it had lost […]

Posted in Iconography, News | Tagged Carving, Hexaemeron, icon carving, iconography, Jonathan Pageau, Mary Lowell, steatite, stone, training, wood, workshop July 14, 2014
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