Talk:Valentin Streltsov/Temp

Valentin Streltsov - one of the leading contemporary Iconographers. Graduated from the State Art School and Trush’s State Institute of Decorative Arts in Lviv. Also studied privately monumental painting with prominent Ukrainian painters S. Shatalin, Z. Bobrik, A. Kotenko. In the present time resides in Canada, where for many years studied Byzantine Iconography and worked together with Fr. Theodore Koufos. Since 1989 Valentin decorated numerous Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic churches in North America with Byzantine style murals, Iconostases, traditional Icons on panels, mosaics and stained glass. Also painted official portrait for Cardinal Lubachivsky and his Coat of arms. Awards and recognitions: Together with Emil Telizin designed award winning mosaics for the St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in Regina, Canada (Smithsonian institution award for the best contemporary Byzantine style mosaics in North America). 2007 - Was awarded Pontifical medal by Pope Benedict XVI for the decoration of the Papal Chapel of Apostolic Nunciate in Ottawa (Canada). Presently Valentin working on Byzantine style murals at Dormition of the Virgin Mary Cathedral (Canada), helping Fr. Theodore Koufos with numerous Icon projects and teaching Icon painting workshops ( master-classes).