ABOUT ST. lUKE ICON STUDIO
ICON is the Greek word EIKON, meaning image.
It is the reflection of God’s reality. The icon is the prayer in colour, the bridge that unites our soul with Heaven. The Byzantine icon combines Classical Greek, Roman and Middle Eastern art traditions.
During the 2000-year history of Byzantine icon writing, generations of theologians and artists established strict rules or canons on the representations of Holy Images.
The Byzantine icon traditions.
Today, the forgotten art of the icon is being rediscovered, and we see a renaissance of icon writing in Eastern Europe, the Balkans and North America.
The goal of the St. Luke Icon Studio is not only to teach art forms of the past and enrich our creative ability, but also to allow us to discover the God inside of us.
Alexei Mezentsev,
Iconographer.
Alexei was born in Ukraine and graduated with a Master's Degree from the Academy of Arts in Kyiv. For more than 40 years, he worked as an illustrator worldwide. Over the last 30 years, he designed various projects for churches and cultural institutions: mosaics, stained glass, murals, and icons in Canada and the United States.