If you've ever been in an Orthodox church, you've undoubtedly been greeted with walls covered with icons. They may look like simple drawings, but each one has a purpose and a specialized artist, an ...

Iconographer Seraphim O'Keefe talks about icons and their role in the Orthodox tradition. Orthodox Christians mark the final days of Great Lent, a time of repentance, fasting, and prayer in ...

A longtime member of Aurora’s St. George Byzantine Catholic Church, Camelia Crawford of Yorkville has been painting religious icons for about 14 years. Admitting she is “not an artist” but more of a ...

Christos Paleoxaris spent his Friday perched on a small scaffold platform 20 or so feet above the marble floor below, using a paintbrush to carefully fill in a larger-than-life painting of Jesus ...

The kneeling iconographer wielded a mahl stick to steady his brush and protect the surface of the painting he endeavored to restore. He carefully but confidently added facial highlights to the image ...

This week, Orthodox Christians mark the final days of Great Lent, a time of repentance, fasting, and prayer in preparation for Orthodox Easter, or Pascha, on May 5. Iconographer Seraphim O’Keefe talks ...