Peter Pearson
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Peter Pearson is a leading American iconographer.
He has created hundreds of icons for private collectors, churches, and other institutions throughout the world. Through his workshops and seminars, he has worked with more than 2,000 students.
He has studied under Russian iconographer Dr. Nina Bouroff in Bethesda, Maryland and Philip Zimmerman at the St. John of Damascus School of Sacred Arts, an Orthodox school of icon painting in Ligonier, Pennsylvania. He also trained with Valentin Streltsov of Toronto, Ontario, Nicholas Papas in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and at the Iconography Institute at Mount Angel Abbey in Oregon, where he studied with Charles Rohrbacher of Juneau, Alaska.
Pearson also studied architectural drafting and color at the International Institute of Design in Washington, D.C., and theology, with a specialization in liturgical studies, at Saint John’s Seminary in Boston, Georgetown University, and at Saint Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where he graduated magna cum laude, completing a Master of Divinity degree in 1995. His course work included specialized studies on the history of church architecture and liturgical vesture, the role of art in worship, as well as a full year on liturgical consultation.
A former Benedictine monk, he now serves as a priest at St. Philip's Church of New Hope, Pennsylvania in the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
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- Pearson, Peter (2005). A Brush With God: An Icon Workbook. New York: Morehouse Publishing. ISBN 0-8192-2203-8.
