A lovely lady and awesome Iconographer who used to be my neighbor, is a Russian artist who is extremely talented. I was watching her sketch one of her works and she was explaining to me that the one of the most difficult parts of iconography is following the placement of all things in the image. Every bit of anything in an Holy image needs to meet a certain criteria of the Holy geometry in order to me the rigorous standards to obtain the blessing of the Orthodox Church.

She also creates amazing non-iconic art. Masterful still life pieces. My dear, dear mother in law (may she rest in peace) discovered her and was her patron in so many ways until her passing this last 4th of July.

I haven't been fortunate to spend any time with Tatiana since my mother in law's funeral. I miss her. But I do know she's still actively working. She now lives in Northern California Lake County with her husband who is an abstract artist. I would love to consider myself an artist. I am very creative and artistic, but her skill level is at a whole other dimension.

Hopefully, if my health improves and I can muster the energy, I will then be able to work more on my own artwork and hopefully be able to stop working and my super-stressful day job.

Meanwhile, her website doesn't show her vast amount of work, but just in case u get curious to see some of the pieces she's done.

http://www.timcwethy.com/tm12.html

https://www.artrenewal.org/artworks/tatiana-mcwethy/thanksgiving/64382

Sorry...I started crying in the middle of this.

I just discovered she used some of Michelle's ceramics in one of her still life pieces called "Thanksgiving."

Oh...how I miss my dear mother in law...