Welcome to the living world of Arbor Vitae Iconography
I was born in Norwich in 1947, was educated at Cardiff and Sheffield. I had a successful career as a Nurse whilst bringing up a family of 5 children. Upon retirement at aged 55, I concentrated on pursuing my creative passion, gaining a fine art degree at Newcastle University in 2007.
After some years painting, I was particularly inspired whilst living in Italy and began producing religious work on terracotta tiles. This led on to studies in both England and Italy in icon painting techniques of various styles working under prominent Russian, American, Italian and English teachers.
After several years and single artist exhibitions in Norfolk and Tuscany, I was accepted on to the Princes Trust Icon Painting Certificate 3 year course commencing in October 2019. In spite of difficulties that the COVID pandemic presented I benefitted greatly from this course, improving my skills and finish quality in board making, gilding, drawing and painting in egg tempera in the Greek icon style. The course provided the environment to share and benefit from experience with other students from differing
Welcome to the living world of Arbor Vitae Iconography