Dr Lilit Hrant Amirjanyan is an Armenian artist with specialisms across the Fine and Decorative Arts, including iconography, miniature painting, oil painting, portraiture and traditional manuscript illumination. Currently, she works as an instructor of Fine, and Decorative Arts at Haybusak and Mesrop Mashtots Universities, Yerevan. She received her primary training in Fine art and art education, at Armenia’s State Pedagogical Institute and went on to complete her PhD on the topic Methodology of Teaching Manuscript Illumination in Art Education Centers, at Armenia's State Pedagogical University (ASPU).

For almost thirty-five years Lilit Amirjanyan has exhibited graphic, miniature, icon and oil paintings across Armenia, as well as in Russia, Europe, Canada and the United States. These include an exhibit of Illustrated Gospels at Dublin Castle during an international conference dedicated to "The Sacred Art of Calligraphy and Illuminated Manuscripts" organized by the Council of Europe and the Holy See of the Vatican.

Lilit Amirjanyan has received international commissions for her work in miniature painting, having won a grant from the Diocese of the Armenian Church in America to illustrate the Divine Liturgy of the Armenian Church in New York in 1999. Alongside these public facing events, she has authored twenty-five scientific and methodological articles, that have been published in newspapers and magazines in Armenia, the Ukraine and Italy. In 2009 she received a "Letter օf Thanks" from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia thanking her for her significant contribution to the preservation of Armenian spiritual and cultural values and her long-term work in the field of culture. Her scholarly work, The Methodology and Techniques of Teaching Armenian Miniature Art was recently published by Lambert Academic Publishing (Germany).

Lilit Amirjanyan's icons are displayed in public buildings and churches across Armenia, including the "Surb Grigor Narekatsi" health resort, Holy Trinity Church (Yerevan), St. Anna's Armenian Church (Yerevan), St. Tadeos Armenian Church (Eghegnadzor), Surb Astvatsatsin Church (Eghegnadzor), and Surb Khach Church (Hrazdan). Her copy of the Madonna of Sist (of Raphael) can be found in the Surb Hovhannes Mkrtich Armenian Church in Israel, on the bank of the Jordan.

Lilit Amirjanyan's work as instructor of Fine Arts extends across Armenia and has an international reach. She has taught traditional Armenian Miniature Art across the Yerevan Universities and Colleges and led masterclasses for Armenian and foreign guests of the Mashtots Matenadaran Museum, which contains the world's largest repository of Armenian manuscripts. Her expertise and work experience of more than 41 years in Armenian miniature art at the Mashtots Matenadaran has taken her to Italy and Finland, where she led masterclasses for the Diocese of Padua and the Christian Institute of Portaanpaa, respectively.

Lilit Amirjanyan's calling to be an iconographer happened through a Vision of a very shiny, bright Light and a Voice commanding her to do the Gospel illuminations. From 1995 to 2008 she executed three Gospel Books as a sacred vow to God. By doing this, she recovered the ancient tradition of Armenian manuscript illumination. In modern times, the Gospel Book N1 is the first one in the Armenian iconography after about 100 years' break in the art of Armenian manuscript illumination (from XIX c. to XX c.). Manuscript illumination is a dying art and Lilit Amirjanyan's illuminated Gospels are the only present-day Gospel Books to be exhibited in Dublin Castle and in Armenia. These three manuscript books contain sixty-six creative illuminations and hundreds of marginal illuminations and decorative initials. The Second Gospel Book is gifted to Mashtots Matenadaran by the author and is kept there in the Depository (numbered Ms. N 11267).

Lilit Amirjanyan's icons are painted in the Armenian style of medieval miniature art. The Armenian style is distinctive with bright, vivid colors and a rich variation of decorative ornamental designs. It brings in artistic traditions from countries across mainland Europe and the Mediterranean, as well as Persia, Syria, China and India. Its influences extend back to Byzantium. Lilit Amirjanyan adapts a variety of traditional icon designs according to her own aesthetic taste and point of view alongside the native Armenian way of thinking and creating art. She feels that God is present in the process of creating her icons and paints as if she is standing before God. Lilit Armirjanyan sees and feels God as the direct Patron and implementor of her art works, which are created together with, and thanks to, Him.

This video of Lilit Armirjanyan's Gospel Books is produced by the artist.