Aidan Hart

Aidan Hart, a member of the Greek Orthodox Church living in Britain, has been a full-time liturgical artist for over thirty-five years. His passion is to create works and church interiors that reflect something of the beauty of life in Christ, and help people experience that union of heaven and earth that is the ultimate purpose of liturgical art.

Aidan works in a wide variety of mediums, including egg tempera for panel icons, stone and wood carving, mosaic, wall painting, and brass and wooden church furnishings. He has works in over twenty-five countries of the world, commissioned by Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Anglican cathedrals, monasteries, and individuals. Due to the number and scale of commissions, he has a network of highly skilled craftspeople whom he can call upon to assist in executing his designs, including mosaicists, ironsmiths, icon painters, architects, and cabinetmakers.

For inspiration, Aidan draws on the Byzantine, Romanesque, Russian, and early Roman and British traditions. He also offers consultancy and church interior design, and lectures, teaches, writes, and has appeared on numerous radio and television programmes. You can find links to his three books on the Publications page. He founded and still teaches the three-year part-time Icon Painting Certificate programme for The King’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts, as well as training people through apprenticeships.