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Ikonographics Portfolio March 2015 - English
Ikonographics Portfolio March 2015 - English
Julia Bridget Hayes was born in South Africa and lives in Athens, Greece.
She studied photography for a year at the Pretoria Technikon before
coming to Greece in 1998 to study Theology at the Social Theology Faculty of the University of Athens on a scholarship. On completing her degree
she returned to South Africa for two years where she worked as an iconographer and gave talks and seminars on the theology of the icon. She also
taught catechism at the Catechetical School of Alexandria of the Archdiocese of Johannesburg and Pretoria. In 2005 she returned to Greece with a
scholarship and completed her masters degree in Theology (Liturgics) in
2007.
From a young age she would draw and paint and was particularly interested in the human figure and its movement. This interest found its full
expression in Byzantine iconography. Julia was self-taught for many years
and in 2008 started taking classes with master iconographer George
Kordis both at the Theology Faculty of the University of Athens and at
the Eikonourgia School of Iconography.
Julia strives to make each icon she paints a unique expression of the of
the Churchs tradition by capturing the movement and presence of the
depicted in light, line and colour. She achieves chromatic harmony by
mainly using a limited tetrachrome pallete. In the words of iconographer
Aidan Hart, her work captures the appreciation of form found in Byzantine works with the translucency and painterliness that the Russians have
perfected.
Her hand-painted icons are in churches and private collections in Greece,
South Africa, Russia, UK, Ukraine, Finland, Belgium, Romania, Czech Republic, Canada, Australia, USA, Indonesia and Argentina and have also
been published in the Eastern/ Greek Orthodox Bible (NT) and the collection of Afrikaans poems by Fr Jacobus van der Riet, Die Onsienlike Son
and the book by Charalambos Bousias and Ioannis Pervainas.
The Resurrection
30x40cm
2014
The Transfiguration
38x45cm
2011
Theotokos Kardiotissa
20x25 cm
2009
10
Christ Pantokrator
20x25 cm
2009
11
Jesus Christ
16x23 cm
2009
12
Theotokos
16x23cm
2009
13
14
Jesus Christ
25x30cm
2013
15
16
17
18
19
20
Sweetkissing Theotokos
20x30 cm
2010
21
22
Theotokos Pelagonitissa
20x25 cm
2012
23
St George
30x40 cm
2010
24
25
26
St Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia
20x25 cm
2015
27
St Xenia of St Petersburg
15x20 cm
2011
28
St Spyridon
15x20 cm
2012
29
St Kassiani
18x24 cm
2014
30
31
St Luke of Simferopol
18x24 cm
2009
32
St Seraphim of Sarov
15x20 cm
2008
33
St Nadia (Hope)
18x24 cm
2012
34
St Luke
18x24 cm
2012
35
St Tryphon
23x29 cm
2011
36
37
38
39
40
41
St Nicholas of Myra
22x28 cm
2012
42
St Chrestos of Preveza
22x28 cm
2012
43
St Nektarios
14x18 cm
2009
44
St Nicholas of Myra
40x50 cm
2011
45
46
47
48
St Elevtherios
30x40 cm
2010
49
50
St Nicholas of Myra
15x18
2010
51
52
53
St Nektarios
15x20 cm
2012
54
St Herman of Alaska
15x20 cm
2012
55
56
St Elisabeth
22x28 cm
2012
57
58
59
Guardian Angel
15x20 cm
2012
60
61
St Gerasimos of Kephalonia
15x20 cm
2011
62
St Alexander Nevsky
18x24 cm
2011
63
64
St Photini
22x28 cm
2010
65
St John of Damascus
15x20 cm
2011
66
St Nicholas of Japan
15x20 cm
2011
67
St Nicholas of Myra
21x30 cm
2009
68
69
70
71
St Julia of Carthage
15x20 cm
2014
72
73
St Robert (Rupert)
15x20 cm
2014
74
St Elevtherios
15x20 cm
2012
75
76
77
St Bede
15x20 cm
2015
78
St Nicholas Planas
15x20 cm
2012
79
80
81
82
83
84
St Savvas of Kalymnos
15x20 cm
2013
85
St Nektarios
30x40 cm
2013
86
St Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia
15x20 cm
2014
87
St Alexander of Alexandria
25x30 cm
2015
88
89
St John Chrysostom
16x21 cm
2011
90
St Charalambos
16x21 cm
2011
91
St Mary Magdalene
18x24 cm
2012
92
St Kyriaki
22x28 cm
2012
93
94
95
96
St Margarita (Marina)
15x20 cm
2012
97
98
99
St George of Chios
18x24 cm
2011
100
St Nektarios
18x24 cm
2013
101
102
St Agathon
Ostrich Egg
2010
103