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Icon of Saint Clement de Pierreville |
This is the last of the Parish saint icons Twelve churches 12 icons one amazing pilgrimage
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iconspirit studios The Progress of the Twelve Parish Saints Icons Karen Blampied B.Ed M.A. - Iconographer |
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Karen Blampied has created an icon for each of the twelve Parish Churches of Jersey. This page show cases the progress of the project.
To find out more about the Parish Saints and the history behind them please Click here
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The final exhibition of all the icons at All Saints Church highlighted the value of the journey where people had an opportunity to visit all the Twelve Parish Saints together.
Please scroll down the page to see how the project developed from a start in Lent 2010 to completion in December 2010
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Exhibition at All Saints Church December 2010 A big thank you must go to the Anglican community for welcoming me into their churches and to the parishioners of All Saints Church for hosting the exhibition. Praise the Lord. I have now completed the Pilgrimage visiting the Twelve ancient Parish Churches writing an icon of each of the Parish Saints. |
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Saint Clement de Pierreville This is the final icon in the Twelve Parish Saints icon project. Praise the Lord, I now look forward to painting it in Saint Clement's Church. |
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Saint Saviour de Jersey Karen was Artist is Residence at Parish Church of St Saviour between 15th and 20th November 10-4.30 each day Now that the final drawing of Saint Saviour is complete I have traced it onto the gesso board and engraved the image into the board. |
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Creating the icon of Saint Martin de Tours Grouville Church
Karen was in the church each day. Monday, November 1 to November 6 writing the icon, the young Martin de Tours on his horse. |
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Saint Martin de Grouville Preparing the first stages of the icon |
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Six Parish Saints Icons in Preparation |
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Saint Mary of the Burnt Monastery I have now finished the base colours to Saint Mary of the Burnt Monastery. Karen was Artist in Residence at St Mary's Church from 30th August - 4th September |
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Saint John of the Oaks 16th June 2010 - Karen was Artist in Residence in the Church of St John of the Oaks |
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Saint Lawrence - preparing the icon - Karen was Artist in Residence at St Lawrence Church between 9th -14th August |
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Saint Brelade Saint Brelade is nearly finished |
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Holy Trinity The final stages. I had my test piece icon of the Holy Trinity on exhibition at the Artists Directory Exhibition. Date: Friday, June 4, 2010 Location: Windward House |
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Saint Helier week will be the 12th-18th July.
The base colours of Saint Helier are now complete. I was looking forward to finishing this icon of Saint Helier during that week. |
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Saint Mary of the Burnt Monastery The final design and gilding of Saint Mary of the Burnt Monastery. |
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Saint Ouen de Rouen The final design and gilding of Saint Ouen Karen was Artist in Residence at St Ouen's Church from 16th -21st August |
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The Icon of St Lawrence |
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St Lawrence, St Mary and St Ouen For Ascension day here are the designs of my next three Parish saint icons. |
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Saint Martin Le Vieux The icon of Saint Martin Le Vieux. I completed the base colours and finished the icon in St Martin's Church the 28th June 2010 |
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Saint Peter in the Dessert Saint Peter in the Desert the base colours are now complete. |
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Saint John of the Oaks more photographs more of all these photographs can be seen on my Facebook page |
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Saint Brelade - photos |
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Monday 19th April Final Stage painting the Icon of Holy Trinity Here is the final stage - painting the icon of the Holy Trinity. The base colours first - I finished the painting at Trinity Church Egg tempera is the binding medium used for the pigments. The yolk of an egg, which has the potential for life, is mixed with water and vinegar a reminder of the crucifixion. This egg and pigment mixture petrifies and becomes everlasting. The pigments have a death to life quality and are wherever possible, naturally occurring, either washed or baked clays, powdered stone and decayed metals. |
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Thursday 25th March finished gilding these icons yesterday, wow! so intense but so rewarding |
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Gilding the Icons Tuesday 24th March I am now placing the gold leaf onto each of the icons. The gold represents the presence of God. Like God it does not tarnish, does not decay, and cannot be destroyed. |
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Claybase for Guilding the Icons |
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Saturday 20th March Gilding the icon - I had just begun to place the two main layers of clay onto the white stone surface. First the yellow ochre clay and then the red ochre clay both earthy colours. They form the earthly base for the gold leaf which symbolises the Glory of God. |
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Wednesday 17th March Yesterday I engraved two icons Saint Helier and Saint Brelade |
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Tuesday 16th March 2010 "Writing these icons is so inspiring, I feel I am doing a pilgrimage through each parish of the Island" |
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I engraved the icon of Saint Peter in the Desert yesterday afternoon. |
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I finished engraving the icon of Saint John of the Oaks yesterday morning. |
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Carving the word of God in Stone Carving the word of God in stone. I an now on the next stage of the icon. Having drawn the 12 Parish saints I now trace the image onto the stone layer on the icon board. Now is the difficult part I have to carve it into the stone. I carved in stone the icon of Saint John of the Oaks on Saturday. Then on Sunday the icon of Saint Martin Le Vieux.
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Baptising the icon This is the next stage of the icon making process, and my lenten journey. The cleansing waters of Baptism smooth the surface of the board. to make it ready to carve the word of God |
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The Stone The third Sunday of Lent and I am halfway through the gesso on the icon boards for the 12 parish saints project. The rabbit skin glue is mixed with chalk to make the gesso this is then placed onto of the shroud (material) the gesso will dry and form a stone surface on the icon board. This symbolically represents the stone that was rolled in front of Christ's tomb. |
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The Shroud - The 12 parish saints icon boards are covered with material |
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The wood is then covered with strips of cloth - This symbolises the shroud in which the body of the Lord was wrapped. The cloth is steeped in size and laid down in strips. The size is made from rabbit skin glue and water, the death of the animal is a necessary sacrifice for the icon to be given life. Water is seen in terms of the cleansing qualities of baptism. |
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"Tomorrow I will begin working on my icon boards for the 12 Parish Saints of Jersey, I will spend Lent with the wood of the cross, the shroud and the rolling of the stone in front of the tomb and the inscribing (graving) of the word of God in stone. I am photographing the making of the icons as I work and complete each stage. " Karen.
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The Making of the Boards - The boards are made from old Church Pews The board on which the icon will be written is first chosen - The wood is a symbol of the wood of the cross. A hollow area is carved out from the centre of the board; this is the sacred place where the word of ‘scripture’ is written in paint.
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"What an incredible group of gentlemen who worked so hard to produce the icon boards for the 12 parish saints project". - Karen Blampied |
This is how the boards turned out. |
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Initial Story Board of Twelve Parish Saints |
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