Our Partner Iconographers

Based in the U.K, Aidan Hart has worked as a professional iconographer since 1983. Drawing on Byzantine, Russian, and early British traditions, he creates panel icons, frescoes, mosaics, and carvings for churches and private collections in more than twenty-five countries. An author and teacher, he founded the Icon Painting Certificate programme at The King’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts and continues to train new generations of iconographers.

Matushka Olga Ivkin is an iconographer based in Portland, Oregon. She trained in fine arts at Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry and studied iconography at an Orthodox college in Moscow.

For over twenty five years, she has painted icons for churches and homes across the United States. Her work follows the traditional Byzantine and Russian styles and includes icons and mural frescoes.

For original hand-painted icons, visit Olga Ivkin’s website.

Jennie Lyra earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Houston in 2007. She has practiced iconography and vestment making since 2008 and was formally blessed as an iconographer in 2026.