Icons express the understanding of the Orthodox Christian Church but exist for all. They are sacred images, filled with theological and spiritual significance.
Icons are simultaneously a revelation and mystery; they speak to the inner eye and the searching heart. Every icon offers a quiet beauty and a means of veneration, prayer and reflection.
The majority of the icons featured on this website were painted in accordance with the traditional techniques of medieval icon painting and conform to the precepts of Orthodox Christian iconography. The icons were all commissioned from the English icon painter, Helen McIldowie-Jenkins.
The aim of Elenis Hand Painted Icons is to continue the rich tradition of icon painting.
[shown] Russian Festal Icon: The Descent of The Holy Spirit, after 15th c. icon from Novgorod. (By permission of St John's RC Church, Mildenhall, Suffolk, England.)
