Resources
The resources that follow are for free and open use to all who have interest. Our aim in providing them is to share insights, principles and practices that inform the commissioning processes and the making of liturgical art in diverse media for diverse contexts.
Our vision
Our ‘theological vision’ document underpins all of the Workshop’s making, training and teaching. It describes where we are coming from as practitioners and where we would like to go.
Iconography in Britain: New and Old
Catholic iconographer Ian Knowles discusses the role that medieval British liturgical art has in inspiring his and others’ contemporary iconography.
Traditional Art and Symbolism
Mark Fisher, an apprentice iconographer from New Zealand, talks about his journey to Christian faith, his studies to begin a ministry in liturgical art, and the role of symbolism in iconography and life.
Liturgy as Symphony
Sister Theovouli, an Orthodox nun, iconographer, and educator, talks with Aidan about her life as an iconographer over the past forty or so years. They discuss ways that iconography in the West can become more indigenous in its forms and be better integrated with other aspects of liturgy.
Intoxication and Illumination:
Art oriented toward the infinite beauty of God
A talk by Jim Blackstone hosted by The Liturgical Institute at Ealing Abbey, London in July 2024. Jim explored transcendent beauty in liturgical art with particular attention to the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius and Vatican II’s Sacrosanctum Concilium. The talk was followed by responses from Martin Earle and Aidan Hart.
The Spiritual Senses and the Liturgical Arts:
The Spiritual Senses in Tradition
The Spiritual Senses and the Liturgical Arts:
The Spiritual Senses and Making
The Spiritual Senses and the Liturgical Arts:
The Spiritual Senses as Transformation
Porous Portals: Art in the Cathedral
Part of a conference organised by a group of Scottish Episcopalians in collaboration with the Liturgy Committee, titled “Responding to the Sacred: Inclusive Liturgies/Porous Walls – New Conversations”. Discussion among the Rev’d Canon Professor Graham Ward, the Rev’d Canon Dr Dan Inman and Dr Jim Blackstone, chaired by the Rev’d Canon Professor David Jasper.
