Edinburgh School of Icon Painting: February 2015

Tuesday 17 February 2015

Residential course in Poland

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THERE ARE STILL SPACES LEFT. PLEASE GET IN TOUCH.


Art of icon and art of life
Workshop in Poland
16 – 23 August 2015

Located on the very edge of Kampinos forest. In between Warsaw and Poznan. Not far away from Frederic Chopin’s birth place Zelazowa Wola.
http://otulina.com

A week away from everything. Spent in a peaceful and creative atmosphere.
A time to help you look into a silence that is in all of us. To help you built confidence and learn who you are through creativity and personal development tools.
Icon painting will take a time in between breakfast and lunch. Students will work on icons that speak to them and through this work explore the technique of ancient egg tempera. Making paints from natural ingredients will help us connect to material we work with but also look into ourselves and understand creative processes.
Led by – Basia Mindewicz
Founder of Edinburgh School of Icon Painting. She is an experienced icon painter and tutor. She has been teaching egg tempera for over 7 years in Poland and Scotland. She curated few exhibition in Edinburgh.
‘’I would love for art to be accessible to everyone. My mission is to help people find and built a confidence to create. To open world of art to all. I believe spirituality could be open to everyone and icon painting seems to be a perfect way. Icon is becoming more and more popular in modern world because people need something non materialistic in their lives. I would like to inspire this inner movement. Help explore what is not physical.’’

After lunch participants will explore mindfulness and more.
 ‘’I would like to offer opportunity  to explore your inner worlds, emotions, needs, body experiences and to explore social world of relationships, connections, closeness, care and trust.
We will be using a broad range of methods and tools, beginning with artistic and physical expression, through mindfulness and inspiration from neuropsychology, NVC (nonviolent communication) and attachment theory applied to adult relationships. Together we will take a look at many important questions such as: what is that helps us become more alive and present, what is our drive, our spark of energy in life, how we understand spirituality and our connections to the world.’’ Agnieszka
Led by Agnieszka Stein – who has been working as a psychologist for last 15 years. In her work she helps people develop personal relationships. Agnieszka is an author of two books about building relationships with children and personal development through parenting. She has led many empathic communication workshops. Using many psychological tools she is inspired by attachment theory, NVC, neuropsychology and ecology.

Cost £400
And it includes:
Icon workshop
Agnieszka’s workshop
Full board accommodation.
Flights not included. You can either fly to Warsaw or to Warsaw Modlin.


Non refundable deposit of £100 is required with booking. Balance should be paid till the end of May.

5 day intensive icon painting workshop

1 June - 5 June
Monday - Friday
11.00am- 5.30pm

This 5 day intensive workshop is designed for students of all abilities, no previous experience is required.

The aim of the course is to help you understand the tradition of icon painting through studying masterpieces, and through their inspiration to create your own icon.

Over 5 days of the course: You will be guided through initial stages of the process of creating an icon. With short introduction to what icon is. You will explore the technique off egg tempera. Learn to make egg yolk and wine binding medium and mix your own paints using dry pigments. You will then develop your work with the guidance of experienced tutor and complete your icon. You will be encourage to find your own voice, to be creative and experiment.

Basia Mindewicz is an experienced icon painter and teacher, who will introduce every aspect of the process of making an icon, emphasising the importance of personal relationship with the Divine reality, and creativity.

St. Margaret`s House
151 London Road
Edinburgh
EH7 6AE
2 floor, studio 2.31

Cost £255
Non refundable deposit of £70 non refundable deposit required with the registration. Remaining balance of £185 to be paid until 18th May. This would be refunded only if there are no spaces left.