I am a young iconographer, currently living in Shrewsbury, UK, apprenticing under Aidan Hart. I was raised in New Zealand and Australia, where I graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts with Distinction from RMIT in 2019, in Melbourne, Victoria. It was at the end of my degree that I discovered iconography, and through it, Orthodoxy, and fell in love with the vision of art situated in the incarnational worldview of the Church. I was received into the Orthodox Church on Holy Saturday in 2023 at the Monastery of the Holy Archangels, in Levin, New Zealand. I now have experience in multiple mediums applicable to iconography, such as painting, drawing, and carving.

My love of image-making was fed early in life by a fascination with strange creatures, dragons, and the human form as presented so dynamically in comic books. In my late teens I got into graffiti, and when I went to art school I moved mostly into abstract expressionism, and an interest in symbolism. I learned things from all of these forms of art and subject matters, and still retain a love and appreciation for them. Ultimately though, I was taken with how grounded in purpose and function the traditional view of art’s role was, and the fragrance of paradox in iconography. I also saw in iconography a consummation of all that had interested me before, the other-worldy, the human form, abstraction, and symbolism, all brought together. Many amazing opportunities lined up for me to be where I am today, so I feel called by God to take this road.

I am currently aiming to increase my skill under Aidan’s guidance, and to gain experience in all the forms of iconographic adornment that I can. I feel so richly blessed to have access to the visual library of the Church’s tradition, and to be able to fully participate in it’s mission today.