Caroline Furlong
Iconographer
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Caroline Furlong is an iconographer who works primarily in egg tempera, the traditional medium of iconographers for more than a thousand years. Her work is represented in collections nationwide. After years of representational landscape painting, she began creating symbolic, highly evocative works, which lead her to the rich and spiritual language of iconography.
Iconography is liturgical art, created in service of the Church, to communicate the story of God’s interaction with human beings from creation through the patriarchs and prophets, through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, and the life of the Church until the Second Coming of Christ. Through their beauty they communicate truth and inspire worship and prayer.
Furlong’s icons are painted on a specially prepared wooden board, with handmade paints. The paints, made in her studio, are earth pigments and semi-precious stones, ground to a fine powder and mixed with egg yolk, to make an extremely durable paint film, and then gilded with 23Kt gold leaf. An icon painted in this manner takes many weeks to complete.
Caroline Furlong is a native of Houston Texas and trained in Europe under English master iconographer Aidan Hart.
