Christopher van Donkelaar was initially trained in the traditional methods of painting icons by monks. Now, as his website (http://www.vandonkelaar.ca/) says, “he’s taken the bedrock of the iconographic art form as the foundation for his own unflinching and inexhaustible curiosity.”
 
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