About Artsome Studio
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ARTSOME is a studio that specializes in painting of icons,
frescoes, murals and other Christian images.
Gligor Stefanov, B.F.A., M.F.A., and Mare T. Stefanov, B.Arch. founded it in the
early 90s in London, UK. Today, the studio is settled in Windsor, ON, Canada and
it full fields the needs for religious paintings of the Orthodox Christians on the
North American continent.
The broad expertise of ARTSOME in the field of visual arts is attested by
competition of more than a thousand artworks and projects in studio and on-site.
The co-owner, master iconographer Gligor Stefanov has 18 one-man shows
and more than 120 group exhibitions in many countries, including participation at
the “1993 International Venice Biennale”.
He graduated from the Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts, where he also received
his Master’s degree of Fine Arts.
Mare T. Stefanova is graduated architect and interior designer from the
University of Skopje. She has assisted in research of architectural documentation
and drawings for buildings of historical interest for the Institute of Preservation of
National Heritage. Also, she has made many drawings and designs for the Institute
of Urban Housing Development (Kavadarci, Macedonia), National Trust (England),
Colonial Cabinets (Windsor, ON) and for private clients.
Artsome has provided hundreds of icons for many church, private and public
collections.
Largest iconographic project is the church Saint Nicholas in Windsor with 390
figures from which 52 are life size.
Iconography in the churches Saint Demetrius in Windsor, ON, Saint Stevan of
Decani, Detroit, Saint Demetrius in West Palm Beach, Fl, Saint Naum of Ohrid
and Saint Elijah are work in progress.
The studio has participated (with CCW) in one of the major conservation projects
of our time Uppark House (Royal Property) in England. Uppark’s ornamental
decoration on ceilings (total of 6000 square feet) after the destruction was rebuild
from the half million separated elements.
In the 1995, the project won British National Award for conservation.
The owners and the company have received 12 national and international
awards for visual arts.
Mare and Gligor are members of Pan Orthodox Iconographic Association of
North America.
Art + Awesome = Artsome
phone: 519 974 6028 or 519 984 6028