NEW CHRISTIAN ICONS
PATREON is a site where you can join and for a small monthly fee, you can support the ongoing work of my teaching and creating icons for our world. With your help, I can work more on painting icons and sharing them to a wider audience, bringing God’s light into more and more places where a diverse range of people can be reached and receive God’s hope and guidance through His Word made visual .
In return, I offer a personal view into the progress in my studio each month, a monthly zoom call to aid and support new iconographers, and discounts on my icon prints.
Please support my work by contributing to this website, I am beyond grateful for your support and encouragement. Click HERE TO LEARN MORE. THANK YOU!
My Icon Story!
I gave two well attended talks at the Cathedral church of Saint Peter in Saint Petersburg in conjunction with my icon exhibition, available to view through May 1, 2025
In the early 1990’s , my photographer husband, Mick Hales, was writing a photographing a book called “Monastic Gardens”. I was in graduate school at the time pursuing a Masters degree in Art Therapy, but I accompanied my husband to some beautiful convents and monasteries in the USA and Europe.
It was while visiting the convent of St. Georges Des gardes in France that I was introduced to their iconographer, Sister Myriam. During our 4 hour meeting, Sister Myriam showed me what made a good icon and explained their history and purpose to me.
Suddenly I realized that what I had been searching for all my life as an artist was contained within the art of Iconography- they were great artistically, they had meaning, and they were about God.
I came away from that visit determined to study icon writing, which I did for the next ten years, and then I began teaching others about this method of prayer and painting. I feel so blessed that God chose to give me that encounter which changed my life. I am forever grateful and happy now to be sharing the gift of iconography with others whom God is calling to learn and practice it.
SEE MY RETREATS PAGE FOR LIVE CLASSES. AND
MY ONLINE ICON CLASS PAGE FOR PRE RECORDED, SELF PACED CLASSES.
Icon Prints!
I know that original Icons can be beyond people’s budget, so I have created a great site where you can get prints of any of my icons. You can order framed or unframed, on paper, or wood, and in many sizes. Please take a look at Christinehalesicons.com so that you can have some of my icons for your home or church.
