St. Photine -- Triptych

Material: Linden wood

Dimensions: approximately 30 x 40 x 6 cm.

Location: Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece

Completed: April 19, 2004

Particularities: This is one of the three pieces which makes the triptych of Christ and St. Constantine. It was a wedding gift from one cousin to the other. The groom's name is Constantine and the bride's name is Fotini and since it was a wedding gift, Christ is between them in the triptych and hopefully, in their life.

Christ Praying in Gethsemene

Material: Poplar

Dimensions: approximately 30 x 25 x 4 cm.

Location: New York, New York

Completed: February, 1992

Particularities: My wife loved this icon very much.

St. Paraskevi

Material: Linden wood

Dimensions: 130 x 54 x 6 cm.

Location: Kynopiastes, Corfu, Greece

Completed: 2003

Particularities: This is an icon that was dedicated by Tasos and Maria to the monastery of St. Paraskevi. We took the icon to the monastery on the day of St. Paraskevi, on July 26, and it was brought out so that the people might reverence the icon.

St. Spyridon

Material: Beech Wood

Dimensions: approximately 30 x 40 x 5 cm.

Location: Thessaloniki, Greece

Completed: October 8, 2004

Particularities: This icon has been in several exhibits and it is very hard wood, not recommended for wood carving.

St. Demetrios

Material: Red Beech wood
Dimensions: 114 x 45 x 10 cm.
Location: American Farm School Library
Completed: May 19, 2008
Particularities: It is hardwood not highly recommended for woodcarving. This icon has a very thin and small mustache as St. Demetrios had but you must look closely to see it.

St. Trifon

Material: California Redwood

Dimensions: approximately 30 x 50 x 4 cm.

Location: The cell of St. Trifon at the Monastery of Xenophon at Mt Athos in Greece

Completed: 1993

Particularities: St. Trifon was a young man who was a gardener and a farmer. He suffered martyrdom very young and this is the reason we depict him with no beard and his hair a bit messy, while in his right hand, he holds the cross to show that he was a martyr and on his left hand, he normally holds a flower or a farming tool.

St. Triantafyllos

Material: Linden wood.

Dimensions: approximately 30 x 40 x 4 cm.

Location: Volos, Greece.

Completed: 2002.

Particularities: The translation of triantafyllos is 'rose', which is the reason why there are roses around the saint.