New Roots & Markos Kampanis

commission4mission artist Markos Kampanis is New Roots artist-in-residence for October.

Markos was born in Athens in 1955. He studied painting in London where he lived until 1980. He is mainly a painter but has alos worked with printmaking, book illustration, church murals and icons, while in the past he has tried his hand in stage design. He has done many one man exhibitions and participated in numerous group shows in Greece and abroad. In 1984 he participated in the 15th Biennale of Alexandria.

His work may be described as realistic, however with many technical and stylistic variations. His great, almost fetishistic, interest in materials and techniques, works alongside his academic interest for the history of art that led him to editing books and curating exhibitions.

An artist, painter and printmaker, but also a keen mural artist. Markos has done various murals for monasteries on Mount Athos in Greece and the Monastery of St. Katherine on Mt. Sinai, as well as for private chapels. He has also worked on numerous religious book illustrations.

Click here and here to see images by Markos on the New Roots site.

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John Tavener - Ikon Of Eros.

Irina Bradley: New Roots Artist in Residence for August

In partnership with commission4misssion New Roots has begun featuring an Artist in Residence each month. In August 2018 the Artist in Residence is commission4mission member Irina Bradley.

Irina Bradley is an iconographer, specialising in Russo-Byzantine style, who follows the traditional way of icon painting, which is regarded as a contemplative practice. It is a transformative process, which takes place not only on an icon boards, but also within the artist. Irina studied icon painting in Italy, Russia and the UK. Irina graduated from the Prince’s School of Traditional Arts in London, where amongst other disciplines she studied Indian and Persian miniature painting, mosaics, stained glass, islimi, tiles, ceramic plates glazing and geometry. Irina’s successfully defended her doctoral thesis on the iconography of St George and the Dragon in January 2015. Irina is a visiting tutor for icon painting at the Prince’s School of Traditional Arts in London, where she teaches at MA level, she also teaches open program courses for general public.

Irina’s work is worldwide. She has exhibited at several international exhibitions and has presented her research and icons at Christ Church Oxford, the Temenos Academy, the Boghossian Foundation in Brussels, Cumberland Lodge and the V&A. Irina’s icons are featured in an international publication Divine Temple by Kolomenskaya Versta of Saint Petersburg. Irina’s icons are being exhibited at Buckingham Palace’s summer exhibition from July to September 2018.

New Roots seeks to meet the needs of those who ‘believe but don’t belong’, nurturing a place of support, resource and encouragement. Find them here.

New Roots is excited that from July 2018 they will feature an ‘Artist in Residence’ each month and have initially teamed up with commission4mission to begin working with a number of artists. The New Roots Artist in Residence will be invited to profile a number of different works for a month with the first artists featured being from commission4mission.

New Roots are keen to work with artists using different visual mediums – so if you are interested in becoming a ‘New Roots Artist in Residence’ get in touch: bob@newroots.online.

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John Tavener - Ikon of St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne.

New Roots Artist in Residence.- Valerie Dean

commission4mission's Valerie Dean is the first New Roots Artist in Residence. Valerie’s series of pictures as Artist in Residence on the New Roots website will feature angels. “I think it possible that angels really exist, as messengers of God. In any case they represent the moment when we feel touched by the transcendent and perhaps feel called to respond to God.

I have a print of Fra Angelico’s “Paradise” on my wall. It shows happy angels welcoming people into heaven and it was a great comfort to me at a time of sorrow and loss. Jesus tells us of the rejoicing among the angels over the conversion of a sinner so there is hope for us all!”

Valerie’s first picture as Artist in Residence is available from today.

New Roots seeks to meet the needs of those who ‘believe but don’t belong’, nurturing a place of support, resource and encouragement. Find them here.

New Roots is excited that from July 2018 they will feature an ‘Artist in Residence’ each month and have initially teamed up with commission4mission to begin working with a number of artists. The New Roots Artist in Residence will be invited to profile a number of different works for a month with the first artists featured being from commission4mission.

New Roots are keen to work with artists using different visual mediums – so if you are interested in becoming a ‘New Roots Artist in Residence’ get in touch: bob@newroots.online.

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The Band with Bob Dylan - When I Paint My Masterpiece.

HeartEdge's June Mailer

HeartEdge is a growing international ecumenical network, passionate about nurturing Kingdom communities via four C’s - congregations, culture, commercial activity and compassion.

Each month in our Mailer we bring you inspiration, ideas and resource. If you haven't already,
you can subscribe - sign up here!

This month: 

• Hairdressing, community work, commissioning art and Banksy
• Food coops, Big Local and the Big Welcome - resources for welcome and collective hospitality.
• 'Power to Change' and an Aladdin's cave of resources!
• Plus John Bell on the legacy of Lizzie Lowe and going beyond inclusion, Vicky Beeching and being an inclusive church, Maggi Dawn on pilgrimage, and Walter Brueggemann on poetic imagination.

The Mailer also has information about the first HeartEdge Annual Conference 2018 - 12 & 13 September 2018: St Martin-in-the-Fields and Lambeth Palace, London.

Commerce, Compassion, Culture, Congregation are essential – in our view, it’s all church! The September two-day HeartEdge intensive includes theology, ideas, resources, plus time to linger, build connections, make plans, develop practice, find encouragement, get involved and do HeartEdge!
Programme: Including keynote speakers, workshops and panels on 'Church, Welfare and the Future', 'Start-Ups (and Keeps-Goings)', 'Digging Deeper into Mission', 'Art and the Impossible' with more to follow.

• Confirmed so far: Bishop of Liverpool Paul Bayes; urban theologian Ann Morisy; Chair in Christianity and the Arts at King's College London Ben Quash; Theologian and writer Professor Anthony Reddie; activist Russell Rook; Baroness Maeve Sherlock; Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby; Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Sam Wells; Rector of St James, Piccadilly Lucy Winkett - with more next time.
• Venue: Day 1 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, day 2 at Lambeth Palace
• Cost: Early Bird rate £69 (until 20th July 2018); then HeartEdge members rate - £79, non-members rate - £99. Tickets include conference programme, refreshments & lunch, plus complimentary Jazz on evening of 12th September.
• Registration: Book tickets here.

For latest information email Revd Jonathan Evens here or call 020 7766 1127

Additionally, our friends at New Roots have teamed up with new HeartEdge members commission4mission to create an online artists in residence programme. The New Roots Artist in Residence will be invited to profile a number of different works on the New Roots website for a month. The first Artist in Residence is commission4mission member Valerie Dean (see/).

New Roots are keen to work with artists using different visual mediums – interested in becoming a ‘New Roots Artist in Residence’? More information here. Get in touch here.

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe - This Train.