The HOST OF ANGELS EXPERIENCE was originally designed to celebrate the beginning of the third Millennium of Christianity and was created by Liz and Roger Heaton of Lenton in Lincolnshire.

The figures in the Exhibition are details taken from paintings, frescoes, mosaics and illuminated manuscripts; most are many times larger than the originals and were selected for the aptness of  their poses, originally to fill particular spaces within St. Peter's Church at Lenton.

The Exhibition was opened at Easter, 2000 by Rt. Revd. Robert Hardy, M.A., Lord Bishop of Lincoln and proved so popular that it ran until September 2001.

 

 

 

During 2002 and 2003 the HOST OF ANGELS EXPERIENCE was exhibited in St. Mary's Church, Woodnewton, Northamptonshire

Those figures in the Exhibition which were at eye level were constructed using MDF and hardboard whilst those higher
up the walls were made from Fomecor board, which is extremely light, stiff and easy to cut - even with a scalpel.

 

 

 

From Easter, 2004 the Exibition was on display in St. Nicholas' Church, Earls Croome in Worcestershire until the end of September 2005.

All the Angels were created using acrylic paints. These offered the versatility required to reproduce the softness of watercolours yet show the depth of colour and fluidity of oils and, at the same time, the brilliance and hardness, for example, of mosaic. They are also extremely fast drying - importrant when recreating a large number of images.

 

 

In 2006, the HOST OF ANGELS EXPERIENCE moved to Tuxford in Nottinghamshire and was on display there from Easter until January 2007.

The Exhibition was also designed to be educational: to show how artists over the previous 2000 years have portrayed the messengers of God. Within all this variety the Exhibition creators have endeavoured to stay faithful to all the artists chosen, so that their individual styles were not lost.