St Mary's Icon School

St. Mary's Icon School

This new school will be starting Wednesday January 11th, from 7-9.30pm at        St. Mary's.

Constantina has designed the course to start from the very beginning with plenty of practice in a wide variety of drawing techniques and the study of icons before embarking on actually writing an icon.  As this is a holy art form there will also be equal emphasis on developing spirituality, reverence and prayer.  Furthermore, each class will contain a short lecture on history of icons or other aspects such as sacred geometry.

There will also be weekend schools and a summer school for writing a complete icon.  Details will be posted on this page as and when they are organised.

At the church Wednesday evenings 7-9.30 pm

Term dates:

1st term -11^th Jan to 28^th March (11weeks)

Half term 13^th-17^th Feb

2^nd term – 18^th April to 19^th July (13 weeks)

Half term 4^th June to 8^thJune (Queen’s Diamond Jubilee)

Fees are payable termly in advance (concessions may be available.)

1st term £110; 2nd term  £130.

The Course

First term we will cover:

Art: Drawing techniques using a variety of media including pencil, graphite, biro, silverpoint, conte pencil etc.  The subjects will be based on iconic form and we will focus on details of clothing, faces, hands and feet.

History: Lectures will include an introduction to the early history of Christian art and specific studies.

Spirituality: An introduction to the iconographer’s prayer and rules of an iconographer.  Development of a personal spiritual plan of living as this is a sacred art.

Second term we will cover:

Art: Egg tempera painting techniques. Gessoing wooden panels.  Converse perspective, buildings and symbology.

History: Lectures and specific studies on Early Christian and Roman art.

Spirituality:Continuing development of spirituality with meditation and contemplative practices using icons.