A slender, vertically proportioned icon panel with a softly worn gold ground and an angelic figure painted in the Byzantine tradition - intimate, timeworn, and quietly luminous.

This piece reads like a recovered fragment from an older world. The figure is rendered with the calm, elongated elegance typical of Byzantine iconography: a gentle tilt of the head, finely drawn features, and a halo set into a warm gilded field. The palette is deliberately restrained - honeyed golds, mineral reds, muted blues and earth pigments - allowing the face and hands to carry the emotion.

Executed on timber boards, the surface is built in traditional layers and can be finished with controlled distressing to recreate the patina of age: softened edges, subtle abrasions, hairline cracking, and the beautiful irregularities that make historic panels feel alive rather than perfect.

Ideal as a narrow focus panel in a niche, stairwell, or corridor, or paired in a set to create a devotional rhythm along a wall. Available as a faithful recreation or as a bespoke commission, with custom tonality, border treatments, and levels of antiquing to suit the setting.