Completed: Summer of 1999, while I was on Mt. Athos.
Finished with oil.
Particularities: The line now on the face of the icon was not on the surface of the wood when I began to carve it. The person who commissioned it wanted two columns with ivy.
Material: Linden wood. Dimensions: 35x50x4 cm. Location: Panorama, Thessaloniki, Greece. Completed: June 15, 2002. Finished with oil. Particularities: Elizabeth and Johana gave it to their teacher of iconography, whose name is Irene. She is a nun at a monastery. She was also my teacher.
Material: Linden wood. Dimensions: 30 x 40 x 5 cm. Location: Triadi, Thessaloniki, Greece. Completed: Dec. 12, 2002. Finished with oil. Particularities: None of the flowers is the same as the others. This icon was a gift from a mother to her daughter.
Material: lime wood. Finished with oil. Dimensions: 38 x 55 x 5 cm. Location: Makrilogos, Pierias, Greece. Finished: June 3, 2004. Particularities: The flowers around the icon.
I am a Greek Orthodox priest who has been carving wood since '83 & icons since '87. Self taught, I have never taken a single lesson & use my own techniques. I teach wood carving at the American Farm School in Thessaloniki.
I was born in the town of Sfendami, Pierias, Greece in 58. I finished elementary school & went to the school of auto mechanics in Thessaloniki. I migrated to the US in '75. In '90, I graduated from Hellenic College. I received my Master's in Divinity & my Master's in Theology from Holy Cross Seminary in the '90s.
In '93, I was ordained as a deacon & then as a priest in the Greek Orthodox Church in the US. I became a father & also took on the pastoral care of a church in Lewiston, Maine. In '96, I came to the American Farm School as the resident chaplain. I have a son, a few relatives, many friends, & no enemies.
f.kiriakos@yahoo.gr