Icons at York Minster

7:40am Thursday 1st March 2007

YORK Minster is to host an exhibition of icons for contemplation during Lent.

The display, entitled Divine Mother, will comprise large works by Zoran Tosic, showing the Holy Mother in Christianity.

It will run in St John's Chapel between March 3 and April 15.

The artwork is painted using traditional media, including natural and semi-precious pigments, oil, gold and silver on board.

Zoran Tosic was awarded prestigious art prizes in Australia, where he lived before he moved to England in 2005.

He described his work as "art that was initiated to open a window into the world where the primordial Light shines, and to bring the observer closer to that world through colours".

He said: "The love of the Divine Mother shines unconditionally to all people. I hope that through these icons each visitor may find a seed of inspiration that will add more happiness on their own path to God."

The Divine Mother exhibition is funded by Arts Council England.