About

"…theologians say that the creation of the world was not a necessary, but a gratuitous, act. There is a sense in which this gratuitousness in the operations of the Creator is reflected in the art of the creature."

David Jones, Epoch and Artist

Hesychiart is a Christian art project by Iona Morphet, with a primary focus on devotional linocut. It was founded out of the belief that engaging with art - both in creating and receiving! - can be a profoundly transformative way to pray, and a hope to share this with others. 

Hesychia, a term borrowed from the Eastern tradition, refers to the cultivation of an inner stillness by which we can ascend to God, through ascesis and contemplation of the divine. Our prayer is that this work might help others to grow more deeply in hesychia, even in the smallest of ways, through engaging with sacred art.