Every Orthodox Christian home is a place where heaven and earth meet, where the family becomes, as the Fathers teach us, the “little Church.” The icon is not merely a decoration but a “theology in colour,” as Father Pavel Florensky beautifully expressed—a point of meeting between time and eternity, a doorway through which divine grace flows into our homes.
When we place an icon in our home, we do something truly remarkable. We invite not a mere representation, but the living presence of the person depicted. “The honour shown to the icon passes over to the prototype,” as the Seventh Ecumenical Council affirmed. Thus in venerating the icon, we enter into a personal relationship with Christ our Lord, with the Theotokos, or with the Saints who stand before the Throne of God interceding for us.
In our age of mass production, when we are surrounded by factory-made objects lacking personal significance, a hand-painted icon stands as something profoundly different—an authentic work created through prayer and spiritual labor. Unlike mass-produced religious images, each hand-painted icon carries the prayer of the iconographer and becomes uniquely responsive to our own personal prayers. This living quality cannot be replicated by mechanical reproduction, however technically perfect it might appear.
Our collection offers icons written according to the canonical traditions preserved through centuries of Orthodox spiritual experience. Each iconographer approaches their work as ascesis—as prayer of the hands and heart—continuing the unbroken tradition that stretches back to St Luke the Evangelist, who according to pious tradition painted the first icon of the Mother of God.
Whether you seek to establish your first icon corner, or to add to an existing collection, or to offer a gift that speaks of eternal rather than passing value, these icons will be faithful companions in prayer, windows opening onto the Kingdom.
In bringing an icon into your home, you invite a sacred presence that aids your daily spiritual practice. As we are all called to the labor of prayer, these holy images become faithful companions on this journey, helping us focus our hearts and minds on God even in the busiest moments of our day.