Reverse glass paintings.

A series based on an old tradition of painting religious icons on glass by artisans in Romanian villages, this technique dates back as far as the Byzantine Empire.

It involves using raw pigments ground to a paste then mixed in with an egg yolk emulsion which dries very quickly and allows for transparent layers of bright colours to build upon. The painting order is also in reverse, starting with the lightest layers first then building up gradually to the darkest tint.

Ive explored two themes in this series, one of them based on the La Blouse Roumaine, and other traditional romanian folk motives, weaved into characters and their own naratives and personalities. And the other of Seraphim, a very common subject in religious iconography, depicted historycally as the gate keepers of heaven and the highest ranking in the hierarchy of angels.