During the past few weeks there has been a significant increase in the number of vicious and insensitive anti-Christian public ‘artworks’ and vandalism of churches across Australia. It would be naïve to think Christianity is not frequently insulted or targeted by artists and the media, however, this spike occurred during the rapturous celebrations of the recent same-sex plebiscite when, supposedly, ‘love’ and ‘tolerance’ won. Republishing images of these religious assaults wo

Irene Koronas is an Orthodox poet, painter and poetry editor at Wilderness House Literary Review. She has spent her whole life capturing the very essence of life and its extra-ordinariness of even simple moments. My life begins with lots of people, relatives, apartment dwellers, neighbors from all parts of the world, store keepers selling penny candy and stray cats. Mother let us have kittens. Because we lived on main street the kittens were often run over by cars. We never o

Beauty is everywhere, even when it’s staring us right in the face. It can be meek, warm, gentle and loving. It can also be dynamic, colourful and vivid. It ascends, glides, floats and twirls. It’s untamed and strong. It’s honest and encapsulates the true essence of the object. It excites us and grants us a magical moment during the day. Its personality has a creative imagination and although it may age it never loses its wonder. It takes forms and reinvents them to show us so

On today’s program I’ll be talking with Angelica Sotiriou, a visual artist from San Pedro in California, USA. As an Orthodox Christian, Angelica’s art is a vivid expression of her Faith. Using abstract and surreal forms, she originally started off drawing and painting with graphite and acrylics, but moved towards sculpture. Then after many years returned back to her first-love of colour and line on larges canvasses. Having been a teacher and lecturer for 39 years, Angelica fi

At the beginning of the 20th century a new theory was brewing. Discussed and contemplated in the cafes, cinemas and carnival freak-shows of Europe, these groups of artists developed a new method of creative expression: Surrealism. This new thought-process looked at the world with very different and bizarre eyes. It challenged convention and greatly divided the art world, yet Surrealism found its home in every artistic medium. However, like so many rebellious ideals, it has be

I discovered this remarkable plate in a retro/antique shop in the beachside town of Rosebud (Victoria, Australia). I had never seen such a unique piece before and was even more astounded by its imagery (see below). Then I began to wonder: what style was it and was it Orthodox inspired? Unfortunately I could not directly trace the origin of the plate. The shop owners had no clue and the company logo, stamped on the back of the plate, was covered with an adhesive ring-pad so it