![]() ![]() Sighnaghi is a mountaintop village overlooking the fertile Alazani valley where wine has been made for thousands of years, which stretches out towards the snow-capped Caucus Mountains. None of us anticipated the wondrous land that awaited us in Georgia. I was the youngest in the group the other four were professional artists. He invited me to join a group of five painters from America for a summer painting practicum in Georgia led by him and his classmate, Ilya Yatsenko. He studied in the studio of the master Vyacheslav Nikolaievich Zabelin, becoming the first American to complete the institute, and then moved to the village of Sighnaghi in Georgia where he married Ketevan Mindorashvili, the leader of a Georgian sacred/folk ensemble. He had gone from MICA in Baltimore to the Surikov Institute in Moscow seeking the most intensive classical art education he could find. In my eleventh grade year, I met a man named John Wurdeman, from my hometown of Richmond Virginia, who lived as an artist in the Republic of Georgia. My work at that time was experimental, postmodern, and often quite dark. In my teenage years, art became the central way I related to life and explored who I was. Growing up, my three brothers and I were all inspired to identify with visual art, and we are all still pursuing it in various ways. From his childhood, my father had a talent and zeal for drawing, which he followed through study at Parsons School of Design, at Cooper Union in New York City, and into his career in marketing. O’Keefe: My desire to be an artist was inspired first of all by my dad. How did you wind up so far from home, and what was that experience like? You studied painting in the Republic of Georgia. Gould: Seraphim, tell us about your background as an artist. It is clear from the quality of this painting that Seraphim is one of the most talented up-and-coming iconographers in the USA.Ī. Cyprian Orthodox Church in Midlothian, Virginia. We are pleased to feature his very interesting life story here, as well as images of his most recent major project – wall paintings at St. In 2022, the Trinity Iconography Institute merged with Trinity's Spiritual Formation ministries.Editor’s Note: Seraphim O’Keefe is a promising young iconographer who has already done some remarkable work. Jon's icons are present in many parish churches and Roman Catholic Archdiocesan establishments in Oregon and across the United States, as well as in the Patriarchate of Byzantium. ![]() Jon was designated Trinity Iconography Institute's new, Master Iconographer. In fall 2012, the Institute welcomed Father Jon Buffington, a Chaldean Catholic priest, as our new Instructor. Sherry has a large body of work written by Sherry under her former name of Bettendorf. Lynch, who trained in Turkey and was acknowledged as an iconographer by His All Holiness Athenagoras I, the then Patriarch of Byzantium/Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey). From 1999 until the 2012, the Institute's was led by Master Iconographer Sherry V. The Institute's founding instructor was Thomas Howard, from St. Students agree to commit to the practice, Canons, and Rubrics of iconography according to the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church. The Trinity Iconography Institute was created in 1995 to train individuals who are interested in the spiritual practice of iconography. ![]()
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