A slender, timeworn icon panel that feels lifted from a chapel wall and preserved mid-prayer. Earthy ochres and terracotta tones are balanced by mineral blues, with the quiet authority of a haloed figure emerging through centuries of patina .

Part of De Ferranti’s Frescoes and Iconography collection, this piece is conceived as an authentic fragment recreation, painted using the same plant and mineral extract colours and traditional techniques as the originals. The surface is intentionally weathered, with softened edges, tonal abrasion, and the kind of uneven density you only get when an image has lived a long life on a wall.

The composition is vertical and devotional in spirit: a stylised Byzantine figure, haloed and robed, rendered in warm clay-like pigments with cooler blue passages that bring depth and calm. Subtle shifts in saturation and wear create a convincing sense of age, as if the image has been uncovered rather than newly made.

Ideal as a focus panel in a niche, stairwell, entrance, or along a corridor, it can also be commissioned as part of a wider scheme, translated into larger wall fields or paired as a series of “excavated” fragments. As with all De Ferranti iconography work, the palette, level of distressing, and overall scale can be tailored to the architecture so the final result feels historically grounded, not theatrical.