This icon is a high-resolution print on hardboard, embellished with light-reflecting silver and gold foil.

An icon is a ‘window into heaven’, an image which reveals the face of God to us. Icons have been called theology in line and colour. The icon speaks the Word afresh when we gaze and meditate upon it. Traditionally, icons are said to be ‘written by God with the hands of’ the artist denoting that they are regarded as inspired by the Holy Spirit. Icons are highly stylized and so the depiction of people, nature, clothing and objects is non-naturalistic (for example, there is no sense of perspective). The geometrical order of the icon (for example, the folds of the clothes or the rocks of the mountain) signifies the order of heaven with everything in its rightful place and in balance. 

Blessed at Saviour Cathedral in Moscow.