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24/12/2019 GMT

Creating an icon

BBC World Service - In the Studio, Creating an icon

World renowned iconographer Aidan Hart creates an icon for Christmas

Over five days, world renowned iconographer Aidan Hart creates a Christmas icon, and reveals the moment when a physical image becomes a religious icon

For this special Christmas episode, In the Studio goes on a journey with one of the world's most renowned iconographers. Not just to witness the creation of a beautiful painting - but to witness a transformation. The moment a physical image becomes a religious icon - a prayer in paint that, for the faithful, acts as a door between heaven and earth.

Aidan Hart, a former hermit and Greek Orthodox monk whose icons you will find all over the world in churches and private collections - including that of Prince Charles - will paint an icon to celebrate the season of Advent.  

Phil Pegum joins Aidan in rural England for five days as he paints a Christmas icon, and shares the secrets of the art form by explaining their symbolism and strange perspectives.

Presented and Produced by Phil Pegum for the BBC World Service

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