hand-painted icons and altarpieces
Helen McIldowie-Jenkins
Upcoming Events
Icon Adventures
Elenis Icons is proud to announce the launch of Icon Adventures, offering Icon Painting holidays in Sinai, Egypt.
icon adventures - prices, dates & bookings
The week-long holidays are for the beginner and anyone interested in learning about icons. This unique course will combine both the practice of icon painting and art history, focussing on the important collection of icons at St. Catherine's Monastery. As well as all accomodation and transfers, Icon Adventures offers options under expert guidance to explore Mount Sinai and the surrounding sacred landscape of the Southern Sinai desert as well as rest and relaxation by the glittering sea and coral reefs on the Gulf of Aqaba. Please visit www.iconadventures.co.uk for further information, prices, dates and booking.
Icon Painting Weekend Retreat in Wales
Icon Painting Weekend Retreat in Wales
St Michael's Theological College, Llandaff, Cardiff
May 2011
Icon Painting Retreat, St. Michael's Theological College, Llandaff, Cardiff. Dates to be confirmed. Please contact Helen or Sheryl Williams-Gascoigne at St Michael's College for more information or to reserve a place:
sw@stmichaels.ac.uk
Tel 02920 563 379
For more info about St Michael's college:
http://www.stmichaels.ac.uk/
Recent Events
Jan 2009: Exhibitor at Courtauld Alumni Association Exhibition, The Arts Club, Mayfair, London
Feb 2009: Guest speaker at Woodard School Chaplain’s Conference, Cathedral School, Llandaff, Cardiff. Eucharist Service for the presentation of two icons commissioned from Helen for the school chapel.
May 2009: Icon Painting Retreat, St. Michael's Theological College, Llandaff, Cardiff.
July 2009: Helen has recently completed an icon of the Mother of God of Korsun and written a reflective piece about the icon, both of which are to be published in the forthcoming book (At Home with the Mother of God, Random House 2010) by the well-known American writer Judith Dupré.
Oct 2009: Helen has recently been appointed Icon Specialist at MacDougall's, the Russian art auction house, St. James, London ahead of their forthcoming sale of Russian icons, December 2nd 2009.
www.macdougallauction.com
May 2010: Icon Painting Retreat, St. Michael's Theological College, Llandaff, Cardiff. 16 budding iconographers wrote an icon of St Seraphim of Sarov after Fr Gregory Kroug's prototype of this wonderful Russian saint, spritual father and healer. The icons were blessed in the chapel at St Michael's in a eucharistic service offered by the students.
Links
Orthodox England
An English-language website based at St John's Orthodox Church in Colchester, Essex, expressing Russian Orthodox views on Orthodox Church life locally and internationally, as well as on Current Affairs. Helen has undertaken many commissions of Anglo-Saxon Saints for this church, including the icon Christ of the Isles which features on the home page.
St George Orthodox Information Service
The SGOIS, established c.1970 was the first information service for the Orthodox Church in Britain, operating in a completely pan-Orthodox way, without national distinctions. A free journal is available with news, views and reviews, books, candles, incense and ikon postcards of British Saints are available by mail order.
Icons Explained
The original and best guide on the web to Byzantine Icons, frescoes and mosaics with a wide variety of historical information about icons from Constantinople, Macedonia, Russia etc as well as guides to biblical encyclopedia’s, Orthodox music and holidays. This site also has an Iconographer’s Index-Imagebase which lists several hundred icon painters worldwide with over 7000 images.
Helen’s entry is No.336
Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
The SPBS exists to further the study and knowledge of the history, culture, language and literature of the Byzantine Empire and its neighbours. The site lists recent academic publications, past papers and forthcoming events, symposia etc. The site also features links to very good online resources and databases concerned with Byzantine and Medieval history and culture.
Society of Tempera Painters
The Society’s website provides resources, technical information, demonstrations and suppliers contacts for anyone interested using this medium. It also offers an online forum for members to discuss issues and techniques relating to the practice of egg tempera painting.
Yalla Jabaleya!
Named after the Bedouin tribe associated with St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, this small specialist holiday company offers bespoke tours and safaris in the Mount Sinai vicinity, including camel riding courses, botanical walks and astronomy nights in the beautiful desert mountains. Opportunities exist to climb Mt. Sinai and visit the extraordinary icon collection at Monastery of St Catherine.