Anglican Minister Highlights His Artistic Talent With Launch of New Web Site: "Bruce Pellegrin Art": featuring "Icons" by Bruce Pellegrin

This impressive web site (www.brucepellegrin.com) features the church icons of Father Bruce Pellegrin. Father Pellegrin reproduces icons, a craft that has its roots in the Greek Orthodox Church of the first millennium.

Visitors to Father Bruce's site will observe stunning reproductions of many of the church icons that are displayed at St. John's Anglican Church; St. John's Columbarium; Christ Church (Dartmouth), the Atlantic School of Theology (AST) and the Cathedral Church of All Saints, all located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. After reviewing this impressive site, you will gain a much deeper appreciation for the history, origin and meaning of these icons - not to mention the talent of the artist who created them. The "Bruce Pellegrin Art" web site was first launched on May 1st, 2001.

Father Bruce's icons are created with respect to historical, cultural and biblical considerations. His web site details the "History of Icons" which are impressively displayed and loosely grouped into the following categories: "Life of Our Lord" ; "Apostles" ; "Saints" ; "Women" and "Modern People".

Not all of Father Bruce's icons are strictly either traditional or contemporary. In a painting currently on display at St. John's Anglican Church in Halifax, Saint John dictates his gospel to Saint Prochorus while the modern day backdrop displays St. John's Anglican Church in both it's present and former locations with a view of the Halifax harbour in the background. This places the icon in a familiar context that serves as a heartwarming inspiration for the parishioner's of St. John's Anglican Church. Similar modifications are to be found in other examples of his works.

Father Bruce's icons can be adapted to meet the demands of a church's architecture in terms of size, shape, and colour scheme, donors' goals, and the overall message to be conveyed. Father Bruce is well versed in assisting donors with planning the customization of icons. His site offers several example of how this process is conducted and lists the options for donors to consider when deciding on the concept and design of an icon.

The "Bruce Pellegrin Art" web site has a "Gallery"page of ready to sell icons. His "Terms of Sale" (including payment, shipping and copyright details) are given, as well as contact information and a "Glossary of Terms".

Father Bruce plans to expand the "Bruce Pellegrin Art" site to include landscape painting, which encourages people to identify the spirituality in more familiar surroundings. As he explains in an online article: "The sacredness of everyday life, that's what I've given back to the community."

When he is not painting, Bruce Pellegrin is gardening, or being a father to his grown children. He also ministers at St. John's Anglican Church, whose parishioners benefit from his spirituality, vast experience and unique world view.

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