Aidan Hart was born in England in 1957 and grew up in New Zealand. There he worked as a full-time sculptor after completing a degree in English literature and a Diploma in Secondary Education teaching. At the age of 25, after becoming a member of the Orthodox Church and returning to live in England, he began painting and carving icons, which he has been doing professionally ever since. His commissioned work has been primarily for panel icons, which are conceived in the traditional way in egg tempera, but he has also frescoed churches, illuminated on vellum and carved work in stone and wood for churches. He has over 700 commissioned works in private and church collections in over 25 countries of the world. Hart has had numerous articles and two books published on the subjects of iconography, ecology and Orthodox spirituality, has curated four icon exhibitions, and is the founder and tutor to the Certificate in Icon Painting run by The Prince's School of Traditional Arts, London. https://aidanharticons.com