image source A little less than a year ago, an Irish priest kindly sent me a message to let me know about a liturgical design competit...

William Morris is of course one of the towering figures in the 19th century medieval revival, the Arts & Crafts Movement and fine pre...

Can I really make a living at this sort of art? Is the market big enough to support one more illuminator or sacred artist? I was aske...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Master_of_the_Embroidered_Foliage I am always interested to find ways to present natural f...

Can I really make a living at this sort of art? Is the market big enough to support one more illuminator or sacred artist? I was aske...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Großes_Zittauer_Fastentuch In certain medieval churches, large veils were suspended at t...

Can I really make a living at this sort of art? Is the market big enough to support one more illuminator or sacred artist? I was aske...

I ignored the night sky for most of my life. I could make excuses for this - I have terrible night vision due to misshapen corneas, and unti...

Sacred artists have always drawn Biblical figures wearing contemporary clothing. This is an art-historical truism that everybody know...

St. Ambrose of Milan, ink drawing on calfskin  (detail) I am an artist whose medium of choice is ink drawing at a small scale; almost a...

I have more and more been using the translucent quality of calfskin vellum to artistic advantage. In my recent drawings of the Invention of ...

There are a few books that are especially useful to anyone who wishes to understand or to make religious art; living in an time when its...

I have written in defense of the traditional hagiographies of patristic and medieval times, the wonderful accounts of the miracles and ...