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Historically
Inspired Illuminations
Yea! I shall drink from Thee
And Thou shalt drink from me
All the good God has preserved in us.
Blessed is he who is so firmly established here
That he may never spill out
What God has poured into him.
-Mechthild de Magdenburg (1207-1297)
Joining
the long tradition of artists copying masters to learn,
I spent a number of years learning the styles and
techniques of medieval painting. These images are
illuminations, but I also worked in egg tempera both in
and out of the Byzantine Icon tradition. You can find
the results of this process on my Contemporary
Illuminations page.
Like my more contemporary
illuminations, these pieces are created
using handmade materials from medieval recipes whose
processes are deeply linked to spiritual symbolism.
The pieces are painted on animal
skin parchment, painted with handmade paints from stones such as
azurite & malachite, plants like indigo & madder &
different colored earths and metals, use 22k gold leaf.
For more on the symbolism of the materials, check my
blog post on Finding the Sacred in Contemporary Art
and my forthcoming book Lapis
& Gold: Unlocking the Secrets of Medieval Painters
& Illuminators.
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Image (c) Sybil Archibald |
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