Logo design for the 34th Annual Chesterton Conference

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Sacred Heart Institute logo

Logo I made for the Sacred Heart Institute, a clergy formation institute in New York.

Seal of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter

Official seal for the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter.

Bishop's Episcopal Coat of Arms

It's been a while since I originally joined this blog and produced my first post, a lot longer than I anticipated! However I can joyfully share with you a recent work that I had the privilege of executing. I recently had the pleasure and blessing of collaborating with the Studio of John the Baptist, here in Auckland, New Zealand, in illustrating the coat of arms for the new Bishop of Palmerston North, Coadjutor Bishop Charles Drennan. Above is his Episcopal Coat of Arms.

Bishop Drennan originates from Christchurch which has been enduring a series of earthquakes over the last 18 months, the worst which severely damaged the Christchurch Catholic Basilica of the Blessed Sacrament. One of the most prominent stained glass windows was of the pelican shedding its blood for its young, and I was asked to reproduce the same pelican in his coat of arms. Instead of the cygnets, the baptismal scallop shells were introduced and these represent the 4 areas of his diocese. The doves are an element taken from Bishop Drennan's family coat of arms. The motto "Caritas Congaudet Veritati" translates to "love rejoices in truth", which I believe he has taken from St Augustine. Created as vector artwork in Adobe Illustrator.

I hope to be a bit more regular with my contributions here. In the time that's passed I have been studying iconography and learning to write icons in the traditional method, and hope to share these as well as other art of a Catholic nature.

The 31st Annual G.K. Chesterton Conference

Manalive the Movie will be premiering at the conference (hence the logo design and quote)

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Logo for the 30th Annual G.K. Chesterton Conference

Mark your calendars...

The 30th Annual G.K. Chesterton Conference will be held August 4-6, 2011, in
St. Louis, Missouri, at the Sheraton Westport Lakeside Chalet.

The theme of the conference is "Poet and Prophet"

Speakers scheduled so far are: Christopher Check, Pasquale Accardo, Robert
Moore-Jumonville, Carl Hasler, Redd Griffin, Tod Worner, Eleanor Donlon, and Dale Ahlquist.
There will be talks on Lepanto, The Ballad of the White Horse, William
Butler Yeats, Vampires, Winston Churchill, and Chesterton as Franciscan Thomist (or is
that a Thomistic Franciscan?). And there will be a performance of
Chesterton's play "Magic"! More special events are in the works as well.