Icon Painting Retreat
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Start
29/06/2025
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End
06/07/2025
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Worth Abbey
Paddockhurst Road, Turners Hill, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 4SB
Led by Hanna Ward
The course will provide an introduction to all aspects of traditional icon painting: drawing an image onto a gessoed board and painting with natural and semi-precious pigments with egg tempera and using clay and lose leaf gold leaf for gilding. The focus is to understand the history, symbolism and meaning of icons and to gain the basic skills to be able to draw and paint them. The emphasis will be on copying and tracing an old image correctly and carefully onto the icon board and learning to paint from dark to light in a traditional iconographic way. Participants will be given a step-by-step guide through the various disciplines of this nearly 2000-year-old tradition.
The aim is to paint through six full days from Monday to Saturday and finish the icons during this retreat then have them blessed in the Abbey Church on Sunday.
Cost: TBC