British Association of Iconographers

25/03/2024

There are two vacancies for this year’s Icon course in Vatoussa ,Lesvos , due to suddenly cancellations . The course will run with tutor Hanna Ward from May 22 - June 8 th . The last working day is June 7 th . This course welcomes beginners , there will be a choice of icons for more advanced students , beginners and improvers will make an icon based on Christ Pantokrator from Vatopedi and others if they wish can make Christ in Glory . There are direct flights to the island airport MJT . There is a daily ship from Piraeus also . A single room is available in the village and for a slightly higher price a room by the sea facing Troy . The fee includes pick up from Mytilene , lunch, and then lunch every day we work . We do not work Sundays and trips are arranged at extra cost . Those interested should contact me by email [email protected]

13/12/2023

From January 10 th -January 30 th . Hanna will be teaching in Greece from May 22- June 8 th . The group is fully booked but Ikonothea does keep a waiting list as there are sometime cancellations .For more information please scroll down on Ikonothea’s page

16/11/2023

The writings of Phillip Sherrard have had a great influence on me , those of us who deplore the desecration of the earth for profit should read his works , because our world view and the view of how we see ourselves goes very deep into our souls and has become distorted . . This is an article by his wife and publisher Denise Harvey who was a great help to me when I curated Divine Dimensions for at Peter’s Church Oare . We organised an evening of music and poetry and it was as a homage to the man who on his death bed was still translating the Philokalia into English . It was then that I learnt that Philip Sherrard was my Greek teacher’s husband was Philip Sherrard
Godfather .. The world is very small because no doubt the watering holes are few and far between .Robin Cormack one of the curators of the fantastic exhibition ‘Byzantium’at the RA in 2008 opened our installation at St Peter’s .at the time he was head of the Byzantine studies at the Courtauld Institute and he explained to me that his interest in icons and Byzantium was initiated by his Latin and Greek teacher Philip Sherrard who used to go to his mother’s house where his first wife who was Greek would forage for dandelion leaves . So Iconographers owe quite a lot to Philip Sherrard and his publisher and wife Denise Harvey.

Denise Harvey is a small independent publisher, working from Evia (or Euboea), a large island not very far from the Attica region. Born in the UK, she moved to Greece more than fifty years ago, enchanted by its history and natural beauty. As she says in her site, living there made her realise that ....

05/05/2023

There has been a cancellation so there is an opportunity to join Hanna Ward’s workshop on the island of Lesvos on May 25 th until June 8 th . Hanna is a masterful teacher , you may see her current exhibition until Sunday 7 th at St Lawrence church in Caterham . For details about the workshop please contact Ann Welch [email protected] . You may also visit Ikonothea page .

06/04/2023

I have been asked to share the information about a course suitable for beginners and improvers with Cheryll Kinsley Potter. Cheryll is a member of the Irish Association of Iconographers .

05/03/2023

There are still two places available for Hanna’s course on May25 th in Lesvos Greece .contact [email protected] for more details please view the IKONOTHEA page

05/03/2023

Another lovely exhibition to view . There will be Evensong at St Mary’s Church on St George’s Day April 23 rd at 18.00 and afterwards at St Lawrence’s church the exhibit may be viewed

30/01/2023

Monreale Cathedral with the St Thomas of Canterbury mosaic , the wonderful church built by George of Antioch and the exquisite Palatine Chapel , ( unfortunately the window was removed and a much later mosaic was added)
This chapel of the Norman King Roger II is so special because it shows what can happen when different cultures work together . This was Sicily’s golden age where Greeks , Normans Jews and Saracens lived in harmony and nowhere shows this harmony better than Rogers chapel , Norman building , Byzantine mosaic and beautiful Saracen woodwork .

30/01/2023

May 25 th - June 8 th , in Vatoussa, Lesvos Greece , an opportunity to work with Hanna L Ward , tutor at the Princes’ School of Traditional Arts, making the Konevitsa Icon which is in the New Vallam monastery in Finland . This is a 10 day course with two free days when you can explore some special places on the island , ie Agiassos to see the icon said to have been made by St Luke , the Monastery of St Raphael , with the tomb of St Irene or the monastery of Archangel Michael with the miraculous icon made of sand blood and straw . The island is full of saints . For more information please see the IKONOTHEA page but don’t message it contact [email protected] directly for further information . The icon below is Hanna’s rendition