Saint Dunstan Icons is the name used for the work of iconographer Jim Blackstone.
Photograph, in Chichester Cathedral, by Russell Sach
Photograph by Russell Sach
He was apprenticed in iconography under Aidan Hart. He works across mosaic, panel painting, wall painting, and wood carving.
Prior to working as an iconographer, Jim 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 (at Clare College, Cambridge); and as an ordained minister in the Church of England (in the Dioceses of Southwark and London), among other things.
Jim 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).
Working with Martin Earle on his commission for St Mary's Cathedral, Aberdeen
Photograph by Russell Sach