J. C. Blackstone

James works full time as an iconographer in Shrewsbury, having come to Shrewsbury in order to study under Aidan Hart. He is an Anglican priest and has spent time in teaching and research (including towards a publication on the thought of St Gregory Palamas). He currently provides some tuition to the Holy Land Iconographers
(https://www.holylandicons.org/).

Saint Dunstan Icons is the name used for the work of iconographer James Blackstone. Based in Shrewsbury, UK, James has been studying under Aidan Hart (www.aidanharticons.com).

Over time, James has lived and worked in a residential social setting with emotionally and behaviourally disturbed children, as a portrait painter, in a contemplative monastic community, as a teacher in London secondary schools (at St Dunstan’s College in Catford, and at St Paul’s School in Barnes), in university lay chaplaincy (as Decani Scholar at Clare College, Cambridge) and as an ordained minister in the Church of England (in the Dioceses of Southwark and London), among other things.

He has been secretary to the Society for Ecumenical Studies in the UK and has been a participant reporter in a World Council of Churches Faith and Order Consultation.

James studied for a first class undergraduate degree in Theology and Religious Studies at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he was also awarded the Teape Prize for the study of Indian religion. He completed a doctorate on the thought of the Orthodox saint Gregory Palamas at Clare College, Cambridge. He authored a book based upon this research, published by Peter Lang (see here).

The practice of painting has always remained at the core of his interests: the practice of iconography brings these interests under one head.

 

 

 

Icons:

Romanesque Christ    29.8 x 22.3 cm  (NFS)
Archangel Michael    26 x 21.8 cm   (NFS)

Contact:
Phone: (UK +44) 07449 722184
E-mail: info@dunstanicons.com
Website:   www.dunstanicons.com/bio

 

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