Courses for 2024


A single five day course has been scheduled with professional icon painter Peter Murphy at St Peter’s Church (St Peter's Centre for Sacred Arts) in Canterbury in 2024.The course this year will be an icon in the Byzantine style of the face of Christ. Over the course of the week students will learn to gild and paint on a specially prepared wooden panel using traditional medieval techniques and materials. This will include ‘water gilding’, with 24 ct loose gold leaf over clay bole for backgrounds and halos, and how to use egg tempera paint made fresh each day from free range egg yolks and natural pigments to model robes, figures etc.

 One week course at St Peter's Canterbury in 2024
30th September to 4th of November

A traditional Byzantine Icon of the head of Christ Pantocrator.

  email, peterscourses@gmail.com
Telephone 0044 (0)7967275425

 Other Courses for 2024 


Launde Abbey, Anglican Retreat Centre Leicestershire 29th April to 3rd May and 9th to 13th of December

Contact info@launde.org.uk


      

      Hereford Cathedral 5th to 9th August
     Contact martin.cameron@herefordcathedral.org 


West Dean College of Arts and Conservation West Sussex

27th October to 1st of November

Contact bookingsoffice@westdean.ac.uk