Icons: The Symphony of Divine Light

commission4mission member Irina Bradley is exhibiting at Christ Church Cathedral Oxford until 28 May 2018. The exhibition is entitled ‘Icons: The Symphony of Divine Light’.

Irina will also teach an Icon Painting Course during this time period. This course will introduce students to fluid egg tempera techniques with the aim of finishing a small icon depicting St Frideswide of Oxford in Russo-Byzantine style to take home. The course is organised in conjunction with the exhibition 'Icons: The Symphony of Divine Light' which features icons ‘written’ by course leader, Dr Irina Bradley.

Dr Irina Bradley is a visiting tutor for icon painting at the Prince’s School of Traditional Arts in London, where she teaches at MA level. Her work is on display in churches, places of private worship and collections worldwide. See www.irinabradley.com.

Cost: £400 per participant, payable in advance. For more information, contact jacqueline.holderness@chch.ox.ac.uk or 01865 286003.

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John Tavener - Ikon Of Light.

Jamaican Art – Intuitive Outsiders But With That Old Time Religion

Edward Lucie-Smith writes on Artlyst about 'Jamaican Spiritual', the next exhibition at St Stephen Walbrook. In his article Lucie-Smith writes:

"the show ... features ... the spirituality that pervades a great deal of the art produced in Jamaica, as well as its frequent resistance to being categorised as ‘ethnic’ – i.e. as in some way necessarily Africanising. The images are about seeing Jamaica as it actually is – not as some lost fragment of African culture, transferred intact to a different hemisphere.

Where the idea of Africa is stressed, it is to make a theological statement. Christopher Lawrence’s icon-like portrayal of an African Christ declares that Christ exists as a Saviour for all mankind."

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Judith Gayle - Give Me Jesus.